But you're a girl

[Tanasi]

When my 9 yo gets assigned some work she doesn't want to do, she replies "Daddy, I'm just a girl, I can't do that." or "GrandMommy says ladies shouldn't get dirty." It's funny how those excuses aren't thought of when it's something she wants to do.

[Sailornight6]

my thing, is we want so badly to be treated equailly but we are so quick to pull the but i am a girl routine.

also as for the bug thing...i am the bug recurer in my store, i am the one the call to pull various spiders, beetles, and dragonflys out of the store, and bring them back outside.

[Delphae]

We only have 3 guys in the store, 2 college age guys who are hardly there and our boss who is phyiscally disabled. I informed him a few weeks ago that if Rob (the stronger of the 2 boys) wasn't there, I was the muscle. Though, if I can fit in the box, I don't try to move it. My problem is hight.

[Tigress]

I got this at two different jobs. One was when I was working at Cingular and I had taken over inventory control and assigning inventory to my co-workers. My boss didn't want me carrying the boxes out to them because I'm 5'2-4 and the boxes containing phones were huge and heavy. But my lazy co-workers would let the boxes sit in the back for days at a time and then complain that they had no more inventory. Then when I mentioned that it was sitting back there for them to pick up, they would complain that it was too heavy for them to carry.

That's when I started picking up the boxes and carrying them two and three at a time and putting them down right beside them. My boss stopped trying to "protect" me when she realized that I'm stronger than I look. And it embarrassed my co-workers enough that they started to pick up their own inventory.

At my current job, I have older people tell me "don't pick up that heavy computer" all the time. Or they are shocked that my boss "makes" me help him pick up a 50" TV so we can position it to be tested. I usually just grin and state that I'm stronger than I look.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

I'm a girl, I don't understand com-pew-durrrrrs

God forbid I do anything hard at my store.
I once asked my big boss to get the second-in command job in my department, and he looked at me straight in the eyes, took a baby-talk tone and said "Are you sure? There's compuuuuuuuuuuters."
My reply?
"Fine. Texas Instrument HomePC, Commodore 64, Pentium, Mac, Windows 95 to XP, self-repaired the C64 and my playstation, program in BASIC, HTML, early CSS, need I say more?"

The computers at work run on DOS.

Nuff said.

[Jack7957]

Edited: Excessive quoting.

Not me, I loved getting carts since it meant I was out of the store, not having to deal with customers. And I'd go all over the lot getting them, not just what was in the racks or at the store entrance.

[MystyGlyttyr]

I've applied at least a dozen times to do cart-pushing and stocking and things like that at local stores, but I've NEVER even gotten a call about it. It's always "Well, we have a cashier position open." "Yeah, but I applied for overnight stocking." "Wellllllllll..." "That's what you're hiring for, that's what I want." "Welllllllllll..." And it's always some old fart that I could bench press giving me that whining excuse. And then I'm in the store late at night and see these little stick guys struggling under two boxes of toilet paper. I mean, come on, I can CARRY the freaking cart (and frequently do, gets idiots out of my way in the store), give me the @#%^^^#%^@%$#%^&@%% job!!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

The job I mentioned where I was mistaken for a man I had to prove I could lift 50 pounds before they would hire me. I wasn't sure what all the job entailed and made the mistake of showing up wearing a skirt.

Had to ditch my shoes and hoist some boxes in front of the old fart who was hiring. After that, he didn't have much choice but to hire me. His reason for trying to turn me away was that "Well...uh...we sometimes have to unload the chemical truck...those boxes are heavy...so....uh...."

[Kara]

I've applied at least a dozen times to do cart-pushing and stocking and things like that at local stores, but I've NEVER even gotten a call about it. It's always "Well, we have a cashier position open." "Yeah, but I applied for overnight stocking." "Wellllllllll..." "That's what you're hiring for, that's what I want." "Welllllllllll..." And it's always some old fart that I could bench press giving me that whining excuse. And then I'm in the store late at night and see these little stick guys struggling under two boxes of toilet paper. I mean, come on, I can CARRY the freaking cart (and frequently do, gets idiots out of my way in the store), give me the @#%^^^#%^@%$#%^&@%% job!!

Put that on your application next time. Under job-related skills. "I could bench press you!

My first job was at a grocery store. I applied and got hired a week later. Funny thing about that, I show up for orientation and the customer service manager calls everyone's name. My name isn't there, so they take me in to speak to the manager. The Customer Service lady tells him I was called to come in, but my name's not on the list. He shrugged, and I thought I was totally going to start bawling, then the assistance manager (he was a sweetheart, it was kind of sad when he got transferred) says they need all the help they can get up front and to go ahead and sign me on.

I later found out why I wasn't called in the first place. The store had a second floor, and it was nothing but the restrooms, the break room, and the manager's office. His office had a large one-way glass window, so he could look down on everything going on below (like an evil overlord). He was this creepy old guy who could usually never be bothered to talk to us lowly workers. He had a habit of dismissing qualified applicants and filling the store with fluffy blondes that he could sit up there and fantasize about. And since I was neither "fluffy" nor blonde, my hiring was a complete accident. Jokes on him, I lasted 5 years and by the time I had quit I had worked at least part of the time in nearly every department in the store. And somewhere on the midst of all that, he had a heart attack and was forced to retire. A very strong, woman who took no crap from nobody replaced him, and all the little pretty blondes decreased in number very quickly

[BookstoreEscapee]

Our cafe at the store seemed to be staffed primarily with pretty little girls for a while...the cafe manager was a single guy, early 40s, kinda obnoxious...coincidence? the receiving manager and the full-time receiver right now are both female, and most of the people they randomly throw back there when they get backed up are usually girls, too.

[reformedwaitress]

I get the "Don't pick that up! It's too heavy!" thing from both the women and men at work when I'm lugging around file boxes and monitors and computers. It's always "Let Peter [the runner] do that" or something and I just look at them and they back off.

I'm much stronger than I look. I've been lugging computers around for years and the newer ones are NOTHING compared to the old monsters and the servers Daddy used to make me move at my old job with him. On top of that, I've played nanny numerous times and had to lug dead weight children around. Or dead weight drunks I'm giving a ride home.

Boxes of paper? That's NOTHING.

Trust me, if I need help I'll ask for it. But just because I'm a small framed girl (well, not small framed, but I don't weigh much or look that strong) doesn't mean I can't pick things up. I'm stronger than I look!

[katie kaboom]

But just because I'm a small framed girl (well, not small framed, but I don't weigh much or look that strong) doesn't mean I can't pick things up. I'm stronger than I look!

I don't have this problem at work.....however i do have this problem with my own damn mother! Every single time i help that woman bring in groceries, it's always "here take this bag, it's light." Well hello, i can carry heavy bags of groceries you know, i am NOT a helpless female. And if you treat me like one i will be royally pissed off at you, and i don't care WHO you are. I have a small frame too, but i'm still stronger than i look.

I remember years ago when i was moving in with my boyfriend, come moving day both my boyfriend and his and my parents expected me to do all the packing of clothes, etc, and let the big strong men move the heavy stuff. Well i don't tolerate that sexist bullcrap from ANYBODY, and my boyfriend knew it too. Needless to say, we spent most of the day snapping at each other. I suppose i should have taken that as a bad sign, but i was young and in love and stupid.

[ahanix1989]

All the time... I'm one of only two male employees.... and the other one is 30. So, I'm a male teen with a bunch of teenage and middle-aged female workers... People seem to assume that my only rightful places are either doing general maintenance, or manning the fryers. No.... I'm perfectly qualified to serve chicken, too. Matter of fact, I'm damn good at it

[Shironu-Akaineko]

If it's not the brain, it's the brawn.

I'm also not allowed to unpack the wednesday order cuz it's too big.
I was able to lift a couch with my 200 pounds mother on it, but 20 boxes of frozen bread one at a time?
WhatEVER will the the lil 5'2" girl do if it weren't for the big strong grocery men?

GRAR.

I don't have time to hunt these kids down!

[XCashier]

I had one boss who thought I was some delicate flower unable to lift anything heavier than a deck of playing cards, simply because I was female. Once he found out I could lift about 40 pounds, he seemed to think I was the She-Hulk and piled the work on me accordingly. I mean, boxes the three strongest people in the company couldn't lift together, I was expected to lift by myself, or push carts loaded with 200+ pounds of boxes across a long carpeted hallway.

I didn't last long at that job.