Tears...Women, Oh My : A Rant About Co-Workers

This makes me want to cry.

*sniff*

I don't cry when I want something my way. I mindf*ck or create an elaborate distraction.

I only cry when i can't punch someone!!! lol :sad: :grumble: :explode:

Most women don't "use" tears. Tears just happen. It's part of the biology of a woman. In fact, most women get frustrated when they start to cry, because they know men are a**holes who will act just as you do.

Most women don't "use" tears. Tears just happen. It's part of the biology of a woman. In fact, most women get frustrated when they start to cry, because they know men are a**holes who will act just as you do.

WHOA! How did I become an Ahole? Oh wait, because I'm in the general vicinity of the tears, I become the A-hole in this scenario right?

No, because you said "if I smell blood..." "tears be damned" and you assumed the woman is crying to get her own way.

That makes you a jerk. Think about someone else besides yourself.

Most women don't "use" tears. Tears just happen. It's part of the biology of a woman. In fact, most women get frustrated when they start to cry, because they know men are a**holes who will act just as you do.

Have any pent up hostility?

If I am crying at work, I am pissed and you should probably stay away-I never have cried to get my way-could never understand that mentality

What even is this post? Wow. I personally don't know how to cry on command but I have indeed cried at work when I've been put under added and/or unnecessary stress from a co-worker or a supervisor. When I am upset, I cry.. so shoot me. Not all of us are made of iron.

Most women don't "use" tears. Tears just happen. It's part of the biology of a woman. In fact, most women get frustrated when they start to cry, because they know men are a**holes who will act just as you do.

Have any pent up hostility?

No, just hate a**holes.

I think that would qualify as hostility.

She cried because she wasn't able to meet a deadline that I've asked if she could meet...and I've asked on more than one occassion. She's used tears in the past to manipulate others...namely those that will fall for her fake DD's and her little sniffles. She cried because I won't let her off the hook and now she has to stay late to meet her deadline.

Ya'll are jumping to conclusions...step off bishes.

As a woman who hates criers..and has once cried at work because I couldn't control myself..I would say this:

There ARE two kinds of women who cry at work:
1. the manipulators - I've worked with a few. They were both younger 20's though I'm not trying to stereotype here, it was fact in my case. They cry more often than most and you know the difference, so OP, I can't say you're lying, thats for damn sure.
2. the women who all of a sudden can't help it and cry for whatever reason. Hormones, so pissed off you either cry or start swinging (me that time), etc.

Unfortunately for the females so much can make us cry and some are more sensitive than others. It is a ****ty thing to deal with. I still hate myself for crying and that was over two years ago.

If the person (not just women) is crying to "get their way" or whatever, it's because it has worked for them in the past. Lots of people skate by in life. It's possible that this particular person you "work" with is someone who has not ever been held accountable.

If you are the one person in her life that has ever held her to a standard measured by ability / skill, then of course she's not going to know what to do, and will probably cry under the stress. Either way -- Don't be an enabler if you can help it. Try to explain to her how to be or do better in the future, otherwise, maybe she needs to find another profession she is better at...

Work is stressful, but tears are unprofessional.