The problem is with people not taking us seriously until the proper Signals of Feminine Distress were emitted
Yes, exactly! It's so weird! It seems very odd that we should need to prove our desperation to people before they start doing their jobs properly, but there we go. My mother always encourages me to take advantage of it ('well, if nothing else works you can always try crying at them'), and I guess I can see her point that it's useful to have a last-resort weapon in certain situations, but it would be so much easier if people would just take other people and their problems seriously to start with! And I do wonder how the situation would have played out if it had been Joe who was working from home and not me.
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Date: 2014-02-07 07:30 pm (UTC)Yes, exactly! It's so weird! It seems very odd that we should need to prove our desperation to people before they start doing their jobs properly, but there we go. My mother always encourages me to take advantage of it ('well, if nothing else works you can always try crying at them'), and I guess I can see her point that it's useful to have a last-resort weapon in certain situations, but it would be so much easier if people would just take other people and their problems seriously to start with! And I do wonder how the situation would have played out if it had been Joe who was working from home and not me.