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A size *TEN* dress!? I almost cried today

Started by Autumn, August 23, 2009, 08:54:50 PM

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Shana

Unfortunately Autumn, FairyGirl is so very right.

Everything changes when you are seen as a woman. People's expectations and their attitudes.. both from men and other women.

When I was driving a truck for a living, I learned to go into the shop and dumb down for the mechanics.. It wasn't to play coy or be cutesy, far from it. If I walked in and just told them what the problem was and how I expected it to be fixed.. 9 times out of ten it would take twice as long, they would treat me like a bitch, they would tell me I was wrong and/or try to tell me it was something worse. 
If I just went in and told them what the truck was doing, and where I thought it might be.. (letting the dumb a** mechanic play the hero. :P ) it would usually be fixed in a reasonable amount of time, they would usually be courteous and I could be on my way.

Welcome to the wonderful world of being a girl.. ;)
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Autumn

I had the strangest feeling today, while I was helping this couple pick out some things. They were really cold at first but warmed up as soon as I got to actually start to talk to them about what they were looking at. I think they were surprised to find someone interested in finding the right solutions for them, not to just send them on their way.

In any case, I had to drag them across the store to another area to look for some things and as I was escorting them a coworker asked if they needed anything and the kind, yet loud lady happily announced that "she's taking care of us." This has played out at least 5 times so far this month with the same coworker, a nice older guy. Never said anything to me about it.

As I've said before, I'm more shocked when I don't pass than when I do pass these days. But it's happening so often that I'm wondering when someone's going to say anything. Earlier in the week I was chatting with a coworker and a random customer I didn't recognize at all walked past and thanked me for my help, ma'am. He was confused and asked how that didn't bother me. The store manager, from the ->-bleeped-<- customer story, was befuddled about the guy seeing me as a woman. I've been talking to my boss one on one on several occasions when a customer interrupts us "ladies" for help.

Of course, people who've known you for years adapt to the changes as they come and you're just you - when I first started I got a lot of "need to bulk up" "cut your hair" "grow a beard" etc stuff that vanished ages ago. Now the only "you need to bulk up" I get us from our ->-bleeped-<- hag who thinks the kind of men who'd like me would want me to be more manly.  ::)

But with strangers, it's pass-city.

A part of me considers how useful it would be to, in the future, transition at this job - my work history is here. Another part of me thinks that no matter how passable I actually turn out to be for the first year or so, my friends and coworkers won't really see it. And that's why people start over new.

It's funny as hell, I used to be annoyed by being outed to customers... now I'm starting to at least notice that I'm in a way being outed to coworkers by the customers.


Edit: Well, and a friend/former coworker told me today that he'd screw me if I had boobs because I'm too pretty. I laughed way too hard at that. If he only knew. (I'd probably screw him too.)
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Shana

Good for you sweetie..

It actually sounds like you might just be able to transition there. Not a bad thing at all, especially in this economy. It seems you are already being recognized as a capable female employee. If the customers like you and the employees aren't plotting your overthrow.. , then the boss should consider him/herself lucky to have someone who does such a great job..  Definitely worth thinking about.
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Autumn

Update: A coworker's birthday was Tuesday. He expressed the sentiment of "F- that" so decided he'd celebrate Saturday and invited everyone at our store. We rolled in after close and had a fairly big group. Sorta low key, I don't really like bars where you can't hear a goddamn thing and your ears are left ringing from the music, and when I can't get up and dance with friends, but whatever.

One of my coworkers knew another guy who's there, they have a mutual friend (and are sorta barflies for that bar apparently.) He comes over, gets introduced. I introduce myself under my male name, since, well, post-work coworker party and all. He hangs a bit then leaves. And I need to pee after downing a two drinks and three glasses of water. I make my way for the restroom.

That dude and his buddies are over by the entrance, I get effectively blocked off as they're horsing around. He sees me

"[Male name] right? *hi-five* Spank this guy"
"That's okay, I really need to pee."
"Women's is back that way."
At this point, I put my hand down at my crotch and make a wiggling floppy motion with my finger rather than try to yell "I'M A MAN" loud enough for him to hear and understand.
"Oh, okay then." he says, heading into the mens' room with me.

We pee at the urinals and I ask him about how he knows the girl. I hear behind me an exchange from other guys "Yeah I thought I heard the name wrong at first too."

It takes me a little longer than usual, I wrap up and head out a while after he does, passing by the 5 of them. I get stopped by one of the guys who gives me a huge hi-five and a hoot. I smile, shake my head, shrug, and keep going. At the end of the night, he gave me a hug goodbye.



I don't really have a witty closing line for this story.

Post Merge: September 06, 2009, 03:40:08 AM

Today's been interesting actually.

When I got to work, this ->-bleeped-<-head coworker of mine was going on and on about Obama's 3rd trimester abortion, socialist, racist, god-hating pro muslim policies and somehow I got roped into it. "Oh f- you *male name* you don't believe in jesus either." And even though I didn't vote for obama and I answered a foreign co-worker's question of "who I'm for" with "Right now, I'm for Obama, until he screws up. We had to put up with 8 years of "He's the president, respect him no matter what" so I think we can give Obama that for at least a year"" (I didn't vote, registration got screwed up) I caught a "*male name* probably just voted for Obama cause he's gonna legalize gay marriage" fly out after I'd left the room. I U-turned and flipped him the bird through the doorway but I doubt he saw it. I had work to do, anyway.

Sad that the man's got two young kids. Of course, when you openly hate non christians and believe that agnosticism is just atheism for pussies, you can't expect much intellectualism. Especially when their idea of conversation is to just talk louder than you.
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Firelight

You're complaining about size 10? Seriously? I'm size 8-10, and most of my friends tell me how thin I am (though my belly is a little softer due to the hormones), and my ribs are showing a tiny bit. I'm pretty tall for a girl (6'0), so this makes sense. I notice you neglected to mention your height, which can be a huge factor.
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Autumn

5'3 with scoliosis. It really screws up your figure. I'm used to wearing XS-S tops.

It was tongue-in-cheek anyway.  :laugh:
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barbie

Quote from: Autumn on September 07, 2009, 03:19:38 PM
5'3 with scoliosis. It really screws up your figure. I'm used to wearing XS-S tops.

It was tongue-in-cheek anyway.  :laugh:

I think that height would be perfect for female body figure. I also sometimes wear XS tops (me 6 feet).

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