Ladies...your opinion please....

[GH31]

Thanks for the candid and honest responses Dudess and DQ.

This is very interesting:

Remember that women don't just work for men, but also with them, and as their supervisor. If the alpha were my boss, it would be easier to take.

If I were his boss . . . I'd probably be firing his alpha a*s.

What kind of behaviour would you expect from an alpha male who reported to you?

What specific alpha behaviours would he have to engage in order for you to drop the axe on him?

This story may or may not be relevant to DQ's thread. When I was 24 I took my first headhunting job in London and had a female boss. My word she was made of fire!

She once demanded that I drop some evening plans and stay to 10pm, after which I would have had to get a train home - the journey was 1½ hours each way and after 8pm there was only one train leaving per hour or so. She had gone home at 5pm and I made sure I caught that 8pm train.

The following day she got wind of it, took me into a small meeting room, made me sit down whilst she stood up (I'm 6'4" and towered over her) and screamed at me. While she breathed for air I replied that I "made no apologies" for catching the last train and that if she felt she needed to fire me then I accepted that.

I was dismissed from the meeting and she was as nice as pie to me after that. I exceeded the company's expectations in performance and she was sad to see me go when I came to live in Australia.

That was nine years ago and I would defintiely handle things with more finesse now. I was prepared to lose that job and find a better one but it was her treatment of me afterwards which I found truly astonishing. Nowadays it wouldn't surprise me all that much.

Anyway, I'm really getting off topic!

Swagger is a turn off. Slightly squinted eyes?!? - yuk. Nope, not getting me hot.

Great feedback. Thanks!

GH31