Do you work with a bunch of assholes?

[DeeGeMe]

I work from home too and stay in touch with my co-workers now mainly through e-mail and phone calls. It rocks! But in my day, trust me, I had my share of assholes & bitches to contend with. And yes, I'd rather work with men than women any day of the week! When I was younger, the older women hated me. When I got into my mid and late 30's (I'm 39 now)--the married women all hated me because I was single! I couldn't win for losing. Plus the fact that I worked in TV for over 10 years certainly didn't help matters either--let's just say that I'm convinced that more mentally distrubed people work in the television industry than anywhere else. They're all nuts! I will admit to being somewhat of a Type A personality myself. I'm hard-working, a bit of a perfectionist, and do not suffer fools gladly. It did not make for a happy work situation for me for many, many years. Like Joseph Campbell said though "Follow your bliss." When I was finally able to do that, the "magic" doors just opened up for me and four years later, here I sit, blissfully happy at long last. I joke that I left TV because I got tired of being a bitch in order to survive. And yes, at my last TV job, I also had an alcoholic, pill-popping co-worker. She actually kept a bottle in her desk drawer and used to take swigs at it when she thought no one was looking!