Co-Workers, Geez.

[shootingstar]

I'm not sure how to read my current workplace.

It is 80% male workforce where I am. (construction engineering firm) I am 1 of 2 female managers among 10 other managers.

I have to park my bike halfway during my bike commute...so I have to walk part way to my worksite. So my cycling attire...plus by now, some folks do know I genuinely bike...the guys who do initiate any chat on sport with me..do backcountry hiking/skiing, rockclimbing, snowboarding and a few jog. But not all. But these guys I speak with are alright...they are appropriately "impressed" with my cycling. 30 kms. sounds real long to them...

When i sent an organizational-wide email to all employees (160 at that time) last year with me offering free local bike route maps, I got 10 employees interested. Which surprised me.

There are approx. 2-3 employees who cycle directly to our worksite..not exactly a joyous, safe place... thick with multiple backhoe machines, crawling cranelift machines, transport trucks galore and roads under reconstruction/realignment...potholes, etc. I mean, an employee did get accidentally hit by one of the machine drivers...just 400 ft. away from my office window. Most employees drive to work. I am the very rare employee that walks from bus stop to construction site. In a cycling outfit. Damned wierd site!

Other workplaces there have been the minority group of cycle-commuters that I was part of. We shared caged bike lockers, etc. Another workplace had a fantastic workplace fitness and health program in place....which some employees lost weight ...and some returned to cycling regularily several times / wk.!