I’m a software engineer. All of the other software engineers in my division in my home office are men. Most of my division overall is made up of men.
There’s a lot of eye-candy.
And we’re all going to an all-inclusive resort for a week long company conference in a few months where we will be given extreme amounts of free alcohol and reminded that whatever happens at the resort is generally considered to be acceptable.
I can’t wait to ‘make new friends’ with people I won’t have to work for and who won’t have to work for me.
Several years ago I was a team head at an overseas investment bank in Tokyo. The previous boss didn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground; the people he hired (9 women, 3 guys) were mostly imcompetent. But oh man, the women were hot, hot, hot. Completely unable to do any of the work they were supposed to do. But smoking, smoldering, scorching hot. Anyone who’s walked around Shibuya or Omotesando during the summer will know exactly what I’m talking about…
shudder
To this day, the fact that I was a) able to remove all of them from the team, without b) hitting on any of them, remains in my mind one of my best managing jobs ever.
On a slightly more current front, I just recently took up a job heading up teams in Tokyo, NY, and London. The Tokyo office is filled with the usual quota of hotties.
One of the Key People in New York, however… wowzers. Is completely my type. On the tall and slim side, awesome figure, extremely intelligent with a great sense of humor (able to laugh at herself). If I wasn’t with someone who is even hotter/sexier/smarter, I suspect I’d be trying to talk myself into breaking my long-standing rule of not dating subordinates…
One of the great perks of working in a call center is that there is no end of tall, pretty, funny, smart geeky type guys wandering around. Most of them have VERY nice, deep voices and can talk a blue streak… Some days it’s as cute as a wading pool full of golden retriever puppies, I tellya! Add to this cornucopia of eye candy a nearly equal number of young ladies I wouldn’t mind having for lunch then factor in that I’m “too old” for any of these little dears to take seriously as a threat and it’s drool city for Grandma pretty much all the time. It helps that I’m not fashed a bit to be lusting after these cute young thangs who’re less than half my age because I don’t believe in guilt over artificially imposed societal limitations on my filthy thoughts. I’ve been a good girl so far, but someday one of these cutie pies is going to throw a pitch in earnest, and will probably get an eyeopener fershure!
There is one cute guy in my tutor group. He wears glasses, is a bit of a scruffy nerd, and very tall and hot. He has a totally sick sense of humour, and the way he dissects totally does it for me. He is the only guy in my group who doesn’t wander around the hospital pretending to be in ER.
The other two girls are incredibly hot, but they are way to annoying for me to find attractive. Too girly, “Oh I can’t do this experiment/dissection/practice X skill on the patient today because I didn’t do up my hair/might break a nail/forgot to eat breakfast” type. Not to mention straight and boyfriended.
