Just venting about 50+ male toddlers in the workplace

(by 50+ she means age, not 50 actual toddlers)

I worked for a year and a half as a doc writer for an engineering group and had to change positions because taking care of several grown men was becoming very taxing to my mental health.

I had no engineering experience when I started and had to learn the field on the fly. Which, they knew and I was comfortable with because I've always been a quick learner.

These are all engineers who had 20-30 years experience in the industry who had to constantly be told that they needed to document their work, check equipment specs to ensure they had the right cowtools, be told when calibrated instrument were calibrated improperly, etc., etc. by someone who was literally learning as they went.

Cut to today, six months later, and I am STILL helping these children. I found out today that one of them had purchased about 12 piece of equipment since I left without using the correct process and now one of the instruments in my new department is going to be out of its calibration interval and we have no way to calibrate it or even buy a new one.

I asked him to help me get the proper documentation started (I tackle half, he tackles half) and while I got my half completed he spent several hours asking me questions that are literally written step by step in a procedure that I gave him on a sticky note and that I followed without issue.

This is just one example from today, but these men expected me to come up everything for them for equipment that they have used for decades.

It's exhausting and I had a little menty b on my drive home today because the weaponized incompetence is really getting to me.

They are like kids. They just pretend to not know how to do their jobs because if they stall long enough I do it for them.

>be boomer

>work in field for 20-30 years

>hanging with the boys

>someone with 0 experience comes in and tells you what to do

>they're female

>weaponized your incompetence

>cause menty b

new zoomer or millennial lingo just dropped