If a woman finished a unit of work in 5 minutes, how long will it take if we put 7 women to do the same job?? The answer we heard before were “perhaps NEVER”, but this does not seem to be true for the organization I am currently working for…. as this organization claims to be the biggest Chip packaging company of the world keeping 70% of workforce as female employee.
A statistics of my team for your quick reference, 7 ladies (4 married, avg. age of this group comes up to 35 yrs.), 1 lucky or unlucky male (we will decide later!!), but before I forget to tell you, and if you are bad in calculation, that male is none but myself, the youngest even on the entire floor at the age of 25.
Every day the story starts from morning 7:45, clearly visible a set of breakfast boxes in all of these Cleopatra’s hands while entering their workstations and within a minute the day turns itself into a redolent and vociferous day. Topics discussed range from breakfast dishes to family issues, but if you think that work has been ignored during the moment, you are mistaken. Turning on the system would be the first thing they do when they enter the workstation; it’s a different matter that system does not restore previous settings till they finish their breakfast. Perhaps systems are accustomed to burps before they start functioning.
Jobs are allocated, now facial expression has changed with the rapidity of kaleidoscope and brought a clearly reflecting work-in-progress attitude but since they are habituated to do 2 jobs at a time (out of these 2, one of course is chit chat) so with the purpose to check the progress with engineers, Cleo’s have got to chit chat about all their (Engineer’s) whereabouts. Thanks to this company who provides Ericsson P264 handset to communicate efficiently and ultimately encourages these Cleopatra family to do so. The reason I like to call them Cleopatra is their aggressiveness as well their flirtatious nature at the same time. They talk about everything on earth without caring about others interest in the matter, think myself listening about flirts when they were sweet 18s.
Now something about language! A strange coincidence I observed lately that these 7 beauties have completely different ways of speaking. To my knowledge, on the other hand Chinese language, being the unfriendliest language in the world, served in 7 different ways can make anybody go crazy. (Now decide if I am still lucky??).
Well, staying as the lone Y chromosome among these X’s has a different pleasure. You will be adored and admired for every quality you possess and cursed for the lack of sophistication that they die for. If you are talkative and possess some sense of humor, could prove to be lethal for your career growth in such organizations.