Summary: Shit testing. One more reason women don't attain too many CEO positions.

I have a spare room in my house I rent out, but I'm funny who I'll rent to. Being an Alpha dude I find it impossible to live with other dudes in my space. So it's gotta be a woman, in spite of all the issues that raises.

For instance I have a new room mate. She's been here about two weeks, and the shit testing has already begun. Details are not important, but it just got me thinking. Here is a woman with no leverage- I want her rent money and nothing else. Her SMV is 0, she's nearly 60. She cleans toilets for a living, and rents a room in my house because at her age she's accumulated nothing. No skills, no SMV, no property, nothing. But she still feels compelled to shit test me.

You'll be glad to know I shut her down hard and whattaya know she's been docile as a kitten for days.

AWALT. They will shit test any man in their proximity, even if the 'relationship' is 'landlord/ tenant'

But it got me thinking. Maybe this is why so few women rise to positions of influence. Good people along the way get shit tested (as opposed to merit tested) and withdraw support as a result.

A male manager will skills test, and dependability test, etc, and build a department where good people rise, productivity is high, morale is excellent and people work hard expecting a just reward, which they receive.

A shit testing manager will end up with people who are loyal, and willing to maintain a delusion to curry favor. Real skills are overlooked for an ability to pander with a straight face, and inevitably the entire department suffers. Bullshit is rewarded, skills and hard work are overlooked in favor of those who cater to the managers mercurial moods.

When it is time for a new upper management position, the brass (hopefully male) will look at output and promote the middle manager that is producing results.

Any given middle manager may be almost indistinguishable from any other, male or female, but that tiny faction, multiplied by dozens of decisions a day, 300 days a year, times millions of departments nationwide, and you see a slow sifting leaving men in the positions where they simply do a better job.

A manager is only as good as they team they manage. Shit testers will get shit teams.

Lessons learned: Ban bossy. All those bitches in the 'ban bossy' campaign were called bossy as kids, then went on to positions of influence. Stop calling girls bossy and maybe they'll listen.