After working for 9 employers and with more than 10 different bosses. The number of male and female bosses listed below:

1st employer
Immediate supervisor female (HR) + Male (IT)
Big boss (GM) - Male
2 (M) 1 (F)

2nd employer
Immediate supervisor - change boss once, 2 (M)
Big Boss (Financial controller) - Female
2 (M) 1 (F)

3rd employer
Immediate supervisor - change boss once, 2 (F)
Big Boss (GM) - Male, Japanese
2(F) 1 (M)

4th employer
Immediate supervisor - male
Big Boss (GM) - Male
2 (M)

5th employer
Immediate supervisor - 2 males, 1 female
Big Boss (GM) - Male
3 (M), 1 (F)

6th employer
Immediate supervisor - female
Big Boss (Regional Director) - male
1 (M), 1 (F)

7th employer
Immediate supervisor - female
Big Boss (Consulting GM) - Male, Japanese
1 (M), 1 (F)

8th employer
Immediate supervisor - female
Big Boss (Director) - Female (2) - change director once
3 (F)

9th employer - current
Immediate supervisor - Male
Big Boss (Senior Manager) - Male
(M)

Grand Total (immediate supervisor = 6 (F) 7 (M)
Grand Total (overall) = 10 (F) 14 (M)

From my past experience having more male bosses in compared to female (Probability 7:5)
and more male immediate supervisors, I can say I prefer male bosses.

I listed 10 reasons why male bosses can be better than female. (Note this applies to my experience and not necesssary applied to everyone)

1. Place less personal feelings (emotion) in work place (Like volcano will abrupt every now and then when face with issues at home or with boy friend etc)
2. Less temperament when working under stress (Less verbal abuse, I have ex female bosses who scream at staff or interrogate them openly in front of other staff when she hear some negative rumour from others)
3. More trusting, do not interrogate staff for leave applications and suspect staff going for interview (eg. staff needs time to rest instead of unnecessary suspicious)
5. More caring to subordinates (chat with staff regularly to find out staff needs)
6. Do not go into minor details when review work performance (Some female bosses will remember staff's mistakes forever giving staff no opportunity to make any mistakes at all)
7. Look more into staff's quality of work not time spent (Most female bosses do not allow time off even if company policy allowed it and expect staff to start work according to fix office hours even if staff worked very late previous days)
8. Less possibility of contacting staff to chase for projects when on sick leave or vacation (Some things can wait)
9. More of a team player (less possibility of having preference for certain staff)
10. Less possibility of doing spot check on staff (causing stress to staff who needs own space to work)

So far 90% of my male bosses have at least 8 of above while more than 60% of my female bosses have 4 or less of above.

To be fair to female bosses I listed 4 reasons why I dislike male bosses. I do experience 2 pretty bad male supervisors and share them below.

1. Undecisive (always take long time to make decisions like hiring, increments etc in compared to female, gives excuse one after another and avoid staff's question when time comes)

2. Forgetful (though might not go into minor details but very forgetful about what he might have promised/instructed and change it later)

3. Powerless mouse (some male supervisors are merely good talker but when in management meeting were so quiet like mouse never try to fight for employees, in comparison many female supervisors are agressive and not afraid to speak out)

4. Stingy liars (some male supervisors can be stingy when come to pay package or salary increments, I have one ex male boss who promise me min of 30% pay increase if I work hard during interview but when time comes, I worked very hard and was given 15% increase and he even have the guts to ask me why I I accept the offer then and trust his words ??? Guess what he is Malaysian Indian. I trust myself not to report to Indian male bosses ever since. )


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