u/OutsideSame3629

How often do you have customers sending in rfis and do you respond to them? I hear quite a mixed bag of responses about this.

Tell me about your experiences in the workplace. Particularly with things like negging.

A few examples that inspired this post:

I work in a large org selling highly technical software. In all of these instances I was the only woman in the room.

My coworker and I are the exact same age and experience level. He recently in all sincerity referred to me as his junior colleague. He has also outright suggested we have a mentor mentee relationship on multiple occasions.

A partner sales rep 25 years my senior once asked me about my background including where I went to school then mocked the college I went to.

A manager on my team said in front of the whole room while we were discussing our wearable fitness devices that they probably shouldn’t discuss anything about weight with me.

A prospect, the founder of a multi million dollar company, hopped on an intro call with my team and said he couldn’t believe such a pretty lady was their sales rep. Again these are calls where I’m the only woman with men 15+ years older than me that all have advanced degrees.

Don’t get me started on the harassment by colleagues at sales conference. Blatant unfounded asks to come back to my room.

The things that get to me that most are negging from colleagues and male managers that are attempts to position themselves above me in some way. Despite us all being quite friendly and getting along well.

I understand this may not be a normal “sales” post but I want to hear from the ladies that have worked in these positions. I’m 4 years in and tired and just now realizing how frequently it occurs.

I’m 26f and many of my friends have gotten pregnant in the last couple years. I am single and am living alone while all of these people are obviously coupled and living with their significant other.

For all of my friends that have gotten pregnant, they have been unplanned accidents to their boyfriends of 1-2 years.

I have received baby shower invites being held at my friends parents multi million dollar home and it really has me questioning why in this economy, in our modern culture, is this acceptable?

For some additional context, my father passed from quick aggressive cancer when I was 25 and not ONE of these friends got me a present or a card or flowers. Which is somehow socially acceptable even though arguably in that time I needed support far more than they do now as pregnant women with boyfriends and large families.

If I threw a shower to get support in my life when my dad died suddenly and I had to move a week later on my own, I can only imagine what people would think.

Yet expecting parents have no qualms with crowdfunding what is essentially an impulse purchase to them. (if you’re keeping an accidental pregnancy, you can’t convince me that that’s not an impulse purchase.)

It’s beyond weird the way we as society choose to show up. I know you guys are childfree but think about showing some love to your friends who are grieving and living alone. They probably need it more than your friends throwing posh showers.

Also I’d love to hear more people’s thoughts on baby showers in 2026.