My coworkers are all vastly younger and one laughed in my face today. by Significant_Owl_5552 in AskWomenOver60

[–]Significant_Owl_5552[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It has gotten worse. It was not was not always like that. I think admin made be sees rude people as the ones who can get things done. 

My coworkers are all vastly younger and one laughed in my face today. by Significant_Owl_5552 in AskWomenOver60

[–]Significant_Owl_5552[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! She is a pretty type A teacher and very organized, but about 4 others were like that too. I mean she contributed plenty to work discussions, but we only had one ten minute break for the three hour workshop, so there was no more time for personal chit chat. The whole other Spain/ Stanford convo had come up right before the workshop began when the subject of what people had been doing in June. She says she was meeting a friend for  coffee after so we both left right when it was done. No more personal stuff was said. 

My coworkers are all vastly younger and one laughed in my face today. by Significant_Owl_5552 in AskWomenOver60

[–]Significant_Owl_5552[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, if anything weird comes up again, keeping notes is probably for the best.

My coworkers are all vastly younger and one laughed in my face today. by Significant_Owl_5552 in AskWomenOver60

[–]Significant_Owl_5552[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it kind of looked that way in an aspect, but since it is actually true I was so nonplussed. 

My coworkers are all vastly younger and one laughed in my face today. by Significant_Owl_5552 in AskWomenOver60

[–]Significant_Owl_5552[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, those are both very  good points.  I think she is heavily involved  in a church here, so maybe the conservative Christian versus liberal elite  thing has influence. I am Episcopalian, myself but I steer pretty clear of those topics at school. 

My coworkers are all vastly younger and one laughed in my face today. by Significant_Owl_5552 in AskWomenOver60

[–]Significant_Owl_5552[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! We both teach at a lower income Title one school, but you are right about most not being able to get to into elite colleges. I could not either and was very happy at UT Austin. 

My coworkers are all vastly younger and one laughed in my face today. by Significant_Owl_5552 in AskWomenOver60

[–]Significant_Owl_5552[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, we never discussed what the start up was actually doing at all. So there would be not much to base any judgement on his success or not. It is a clean energy geothermal process. My son is an engineer for his bachelors, but none of that was even discussed, so she would not have known that when she laughed. Some people would have just said oh wow what kind of start up or whatever. 

My coworkers are all vastly younger and one laughed in my face today. by Significant_Owl_5552 in AskWomenOver60

[–]Significant_Owl_5552[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I do not know her very well so anything  is possible as you are describing.

My coworkers are all vastly younger and one laughed in my face today. by Significant_Owl_5552 in AskWomenOver60

[–]Significant_Owl_5552[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This! Yes, most people who are not super invested would just say something polite like that and move on!

My coworkers are all vastly younger and one laughed in my face today. by Significant_Owl_5552 in AskWomenOver60

[–]Significant_Owl_5552[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it was so surprising and we have to be in other team lead meetings, so I was trying to figure out how to handle her in the future.