I'm a female sysadmin, who knows her way around sendmail (including sendmail.cf instead of just .mc), apache, things of Linux and Windows, and who has been dabbling with the computers well-over 20 years by now. I put together my own computers and servers, install them from the beginning like some people rear their children with love and care...
...and then I get idiots like these doing shitty sites that show what women really want from the Internet and their computers.
I already had one troglodyte of a boss tell me -- out of earshot, he thought, hah, as if there's such thing as out of earshot in a cubicle hell -- that the next women the company hires should have "brew coffee for men" clause in their job contract.
Me, I think he's very happy to know that even if I am very easily angered and my anger burns with slow hot fire like that of a red giant, I'm professional enough not to do something like load his laptop with all kinds of questionable loli pr0n "hidden" into a simply hidden folder when he's off to Hawaii (!) for a conference (!!) and has to cross the Atlantic Ocean and enjoy the US Customs and its attention.
I think it is time to get out combat gear, and shout the name of Ada Lovelace in our electronic jihad.
When I overheard this convo, I was working on packing electronics for a next product batch to be assembled (embedded prototypes for a new flagship product-to-be), and I was thus handling heavy, sharp scissors used to cut stuff needed for the product.
I mentioned that easily flaring up anger, right?
He's very lucky, indeed.
Fortunately, I work there no mo'. My immediate superior was cool, tho. When I told him of that particular thing, his expression was priceless, as was the commentary that followed: "He really doesn't think, does he? Absolutely no processing for anything that comes out of his mouth, all that matters is that something is being said."
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Date: 2009-05-16 10:32 am (UTC)This makes my work and life hard.
I'm a female sysadmin, who knows her way around sendmail (including sendmail.cf instead of just .mc), apache, things of Linux and Windows, and who has been dabbling with the computers well-over 20 years by now. I put together my own computers and servers, install them from the beginning like some people rear their children with love and care...
...and then I get idiots like these doing shitty sites that show what women really want from the Internet and their computers.
I already had one troglodyte of a boss tell me -- out of earshot, he thought, hah, as if there's such thing as out of earshot in a cubicle hell -- that the next women the company hires should have "brew coffee for men" clause in their job contract.
Me, I think he's very happy to know that even if I am very easily angered and my anger burns with slow hot fire like that of a red giant, I'm professional enough not to do something like load his laptop with all kinds of questionable loli pr0n "hidden" into a simply hidden folder when he's off to Hawaii (!) for a conference (!!) and has to cross the Atlantic Ocean and enjoy the US Customs and its attention.
I think it is time to get out combat gear, and shout the name of Ada Lovelace in our electronic jihad.
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Date: 2009-05-16 11:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-16 12:50 pm (UTC)*gpare* only if it has a clausde that says she can then pour it on the misogynist git. *headdesk*
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Date: 2009-05-16 01:26 pm (UTC)I mentioned that easily flaring up anger, right?
He's very lucky, indeed.
Fortunately, I work there no mo'. My immediate superior was cool, tho. When I told him of that particular thing, his expression was priceless, as was the commentary that followed: "He really doesn't think, does he? Absolutely no processing for anything that comes out of his mouth, all that matters is that something is being said."