I wake up. I eat two eggs and a piece of toast for breakfast. I get dressed. I get coffee. I do my hair and makeup. I grab my keys and I go to work. This is my routine, I rarely differ from my routine. At work, I laugh at my bosses racy jokes and I don't say anything when I see him staring at my female coworkers or myself. I work for weeks on a project but my male coworkers get all the credit. I stay 3 hours late at work to work on the revisions of the said project. I go home take off my 6-inch heels and eat cold pizza for dinner. This is my routine, I rarely differ from my routine. Until, today.
When I woke up this morning my alarm clock hadn’t gone off. I skipped breakfast didn’t do my makeup and I forgot about my coffee. Therefore, I was a little crabby. At work, I told my boss his joke about the three blonds was sexist and rude. When he stared at my coworker I coughed in his direction and looked at him with disgust. At my project meeting when Brian said: “Jenny, I think we will let Collin present the new floor plan for the Washingtons’ home to the boss man.” I stood up and practically screamed, “You’re going to let Collin present a floor plan he had nothing to do with designing. You’re going to let Collin, lazy-eyed, breaths through his mouth Collin, present a floor plan that spent I spent a month and 20 hours overtime designing. I don't think so, Brian. I work too hard and I am too underappreciated around here. I present this floor plan or I will tell the boss man that you all have been coasting on my back for the last year and a half.” this clearly shocked Brian, and I could see that my comments hurt Collins feelings. But I didn't care, for the love of Christ it's 2019, when are we going to stop overlooking women and their talents. Did I not go to the same engineering college as a ⅓ of the men here. Did I not graduate top of my class. Do I not have 10 years of experience not including my internship during college. But I'm rambling, I tend to do that when I'm angry. Long story short, I got to present the floor plan and word got out about my blow up, most of my male coworkers blamed it on my period which is a problem within itself but you can't win them all. My boss still makes his jokes but has stopped looking at my coworkers in a suggestive way. The joke thing may just be his personality which is a shame. Sadly, I have haven't completely broken the glass ceiling, but I like to think that I put a pretty big crack in it.