My female boss had adamant dislike for girls, and praising boys only, but now she’s finally opening her eyes to girls.
My boss is an adamant girl hater, despite being a woman herself. Every time a client would come in, she would mouth off, obsessively asking the question, ”do you have boys or girls?” ... ”I love boys, you men, you’re so amazing.” Then scoff at girls — saying they are “terrible” … “harder” … Etc. She would even scoff, or roll her eyes, or make an “ick” face if you told her you were having a girl.
Me and my co-worker could never comprehend why, especially since she has one son (although, he is her entire world).
Other parents (pregnant with girls), would sometimes clap back at her (here, and there) and tell her the line, “boys are until they take a wife, girls are forever” and tell her girls take care of you when you’re older. She would go quiet...
Today after a year of officially working with her, we seem to finally got the admittance of us changing her.
Basically, we covered the entire office in balloons, polaroids (that I had taken), over the months clipped on the strings. A cute custom cake, personalized cards & gifts.
When she walked in, we surprised her, and spooked her — she was in absolute shock.
I swear to you, I have never visibly seen someone so thrown OFF by a gesture, she was so stunned to speak, like she was visibly quiet to the clients for the rest of the day (sitting in glee, not being able to wrap her head around what just happened).
I asked her, has anyone ever done this for you? She quietly responded with “never” and fighting back tears. Even with staff she worked with for a decade.
Today my co-worker and I get a long message, thanking us for that day, that it is a memory to be cherished forever. She then admitted that we bring out the best in her (can’t lie, when we first met her, she was miserable, and not the most pleasant person).
Now, I know this post is long, but it’s kinda crazy seeing a change of heart in someone who for months nitpicks girls — to slowly being conditioned and feel what being loved by the same gender truly does for you and the irreplaceable connection.
Sometimes me and my co-worker quip that she was always around men her entire life and all she knows is men, she became surface level too, but teaching her how girls are, it really in touched more in depth.
Kinda crazy….