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My wife was an elementary school teacher for a number of years. The pettiness was unbelievable--from both the teachers and administrators.

My wife and I now work at the same place, and she recently found herself in an all female unit with a female boss. Same crap all over again. Her boss would talk bad about EVERYONE behind their backs to other subordinates, and her favorites became the people that would gossip back. She up and decided one day that everyone who reports to her needed to switch jobs (mad-hatter style)--never mind that most of the people have decades of experience and specialized training and licensing for their roles. Everyone was getting bad performance reviews because they were being measured against the person they replaced (with the above-mentioned decades of experience) and they had only been in their roles for six weeks. Fortunately, my wife was plucked from this hell by a different manager and given her old job back.

It just amazes me how unprofessional some women can be, and it seems to get worse the fewer males are around.