My workspace is the driver's seat of my minivan, convos with co-workers are mostlyquick exchanges on the walkie-talkie, which oddly enough, suits me fine...I may be so burnt-out with office politics & people with their feelings on their sleeves that I never want to work around people again...
On my last job, when I started there was a female supervisor in the dept, which I had experienced often enough before to be ok with...she was open enough & had played with the boys' club long enough to not be too precious to allow some semi-nasty dialogue, but then she got laid off at the end of my first year...with the presence of only 4 dirty old men, the tenor changed quite dramatically...there was no topic I can recall that was off-limits, & no language barriers at all...

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