A man on TikTok has a hot take on workplace culture in a video posted by Conor O’Brien (@cobreezzy, which) has gone viral after he shared that he wouldn’t want a male boss.
Since the video was posted, it has received nearly 7 million views and over 960,000 likes.
“Fellas, is it a little cringe to have a male boss?” O’Brien asked in the video. “What, you have a grown man tell you what to do all day? And you say, ‘Yes sir, I’ll have that done by end of day.’ Couldn’t be me, I only have female bosses. Y’all be good though.”
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People in the comments of O’Brien’s video resonated with his sentiments—many from their own personal experiences with bosses of opposite sexes.
“I’ve found my female bosses to be less emotional. By a lot,” @userg716ta9sf3 wrote in a comment liked by over 160,000 people.
“For me, male bosses are chill until they are not chill, and then I’m super nervous,” @maidenofmara wrote. “Then with female bosses, it’s a fairly constant expectation of work.”
“I’ve had one male boss and four female bosses. Guess which singular boss has been the only one to have multiple emotional outbursts in meetings, screaming till red in the face, and resigned after two years?” @aujbn wrote. “Hint: it’s not any of the four females!”
The difference between the leadership styles of male and female bosses could be summed up by one comment from @vikus158: “My male bosses where very passive and scared, while my female bosses lead me with humor and empathy,” they wrote.
Some viewers had experiences of being managed by both a male and female at the same time—and the female boss reigned supreme.
“I worked for a couple at one point, and anytime he tried to tell us what to do everyone was like ‘OK…but I’m going to double check with Melissa real quick,’ because she was actually in charge,” @shmegggs wrote.
While O’Brien’s video attracted mostly the bossed instead of the bosses, it did reach a smaller audience that O’Brien may not have been expecting. One man spoke from the other side of the debate. Instead of making his case for male management, the video struck fear in him.
“Nooo, I just stepped into a management role. This is embarrassing for me, I don’t want this for my team,” @thejdgarza wrote.
Newsweek has reached out to @cobreezzy for comment via TikTok.
