Barry emails:
Employment for curmudgeonly middle aged males is a real problem in this day and age. Especially if you have fallen out of the career ladder or were never much part of it in the first place.
It is a huge problem if you don’t like being micro managed, dealing with the public or having to work with women. The office I used to work in is typical. Two gay men. Five bitchy women. A craven male boss who hides in his office. And me.
It is worse if you end up working for cowardly male bosses who can’t control the women in their office. Often these cowards need to put a layer between themselves and the bitches who won’t raise a finger and take lots of time off.
So I get hired at cheap freelance rates to do the work the women on staff can’t be bothered doing. But I have another role – the bosses bullet stopper.
Because the moment I arrive I am now the target of the hatred of five women who feel threatened. The gamesmanship, the office politics, the pressure. You wouldn’t believe it Luke. There isn’t even a honeymoon period! Pure hatred from day one.
Pressure is when there is a lot to do at high speed. It can be very energising. But stress is a killer. And women love dishing it outl Stress can happen in the quietest most unproductive, lazy environments – like this office I ended up in.
I now know how you can turn the most indolent, lazy female into a blur of frenzied activity. Just add the missing ingredient – malice. For my presence soon energised these bitches into a buzzing hive of conspiracy. Old workplaces and colleagues were contacted. My email and browsing habits habits perused. They missed nothing.
The female human relations parasite even invited me in for an informal chat to ask me how I was getting on and why all the women felt “uncomfortable” around me.
I lasted ten weeks and one of the woman did a jig in front of my desk when I handed in my notice. How I didn’t plant one on one of these bitches I’ll never know. It was only the thought of the huge financial pay out that they would have received that prevented me.
If you ever get an answer let me know Luke.
