Well now... between Erbe and Smith I've had it!

They both don't like football...that's it for me..they sure aren't speaking for millions of us gals out here in the real world!

Seriously, what sexists these high and mighty feminazi's are.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

She managed to say nothing in relatively few words.  At least her brevity is to be admired. 

Let's fantasize along with her for a moment she wasn't exaggerating that most corporate meetings begin with 15 minutes of small talk.  Is that really the only evidence she offers to support her sexist claim?  Silly question, of course that's the only thing she's got to bolster her because-I-said-so sexist argument. 

While we're generalizing, perhaps she wouldn't complain if the pre-meeting talk revolved around entertainment news, that great new outfit, Manolo Blahniks, or how bad her cramps are this morning.

I've never worked for a man who pounded Exlax as a form of weight control so much they were crapping blood like my last woman boss. In my experience, I guess that means women make worse managers than men.

The certainly manage to make better pies.

Women are better Man Agers than any other living creature.

The instant I became associated with a woman, I began to age.

It may have been my mothers influence in my formative months in the womb.

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I don't know where Smith has worked, but small talk 15 minutes into a meeting where I work will get half the people signing off the teleconference and getting to work on other projects. 

I work for one of the largest banks in the country (yes, we already paid back TARP).  I have people that work for me in 25 cities.  Most of the time, my managers are voices on the other end of the line, sometimes they are in a Live Meeting, and rarely they are "across from me" in a Cisco Systems telepresence meeting.  We meet only a couple of times a year face to face (much less so, for obvious reasons, in the last two years).  There is just no time for small talk.  That is for lunch or after work. 

I have female managers that are great and some that are so-so.  That goes for the male managers as well.  I have some, male and female, that are great technicians and simply don't want to be managers, yet they are managers because that is where the higher salaries are (I work in IT).

What I do find over and over regardless of the level of management is that women tend not to want to work the extra hours required.  Yet, they want to be promoted right along with their male counterparts that are putting in the time.  

Taking on a women in a manager's position when she is young is a challenge.  Typically there is a lot of down time while she is having kids.  She expects the job to be waiting for her when she takes off for 3-6 months and sometimes as long as a year.  Meanwhile, someone is actually doing her job while she is away, but is not getting the salary to go along with it.   

But, hey, that is just my experience . . .

She considers herself a good manager, and yet says this:

"Call me 15 minutes after the meeting starts and then I'll come,"

If I was her boss and she told me that, I'd tell her not to bother coming to the meeting, and just have her desk cleared out when security arrives in 5 minutes to escort her off the property.

I, as any other good manager, would expect that you would be present at the starting time of the meeting. If you aren't there on time, you're letting down the other members of the group and your employer. (And what makes her so important and everyone else's time so unimportant?)  

Sam: "I hurt somebody's feelings once"