I am still holding on to the idea that men and women are equal (but not the same). So when it comes time to move desks around, I would expect the women to help out. It's not really physically demanding at all, especially when there are three people doing the job, so to suggest that they simply aren't capable of the physical work is bogus. Here's what happened today.:
Marketing Woman #1 and Marketing Woman #2 (they aren't really in marketing, but I am not really impressed with them right now, so...) hold their little queendoms in the corner of my floor. They have huge work areas covering huge areas, areas that could be used for us. We hired two new guys starting Monday and there was no obvious place for them. MW #1 has stated that she is not budging in terms of her space. Now, there's a vacant office on our floor. She has, as I said, a huge work area at her desk. It's twice as big as mine, and almost twice as big as the sales manager's. The sales team is packed in like sardines. She complains that we are too loud, and is squatting in the vacant office. So she insists that we leave her work area alone, but won't work there.
The sales manager asked her if she wouldn't mind having her work are rotated so that I and two others could move over a few feet and allow a bunch of other changes to take place. She could have said no, and we would have been fucked. More on that later. She agreed, but instead of pitching in like the rest of us, she stood around talking to MW #2. So I and another sales guy picked up her huge work area and rotated it.
She just stood there. Ignoring the hired help. She didn't even offer to help. It was her desk, and even though it wasn't her desire to move, it would have been polite to at least offer.
Now I know that there are lots of women that will pitch in and get their hands dirty when physical work needs to be done. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any in quite some time. They don't offer. They suddenly become incapable or uninterested, especially these prissy, dainty passive-aggressive Baronesses of Bullshit.
Am I just an asshole to expect these women to do the simplest things such as change lightbulbs, or help move their own office furniture? I can tell you that every single man was expected to pitch in, but not a single woman was. Could be something specific to these people and this organization, but I doubt this.
