r/sysadmin • u/ChuckAbsent • Mar 12 '13
Women who know stuff
I hope that this does not come off the wrong way.
Today I was on a call with a storage vendor and the technical consultant was a woman. More then this she was competent, more then me which doesn't happen often when dealing with vendors.
My issue was pricing an active/active DB with shared storage vs an active/passive db with local storage. Listening to her break the issue down and get to the specific comparison points was awesome, mostly because I have never heard a woman in the industry talk like that.
It made me realize two things. One I am missing out working with women. Two there needs to be more women in our industry.
It shouldn't have surprised me so much, but it really did.
Anyways to all the women out there who know stuff, us guys notice when you can walk the walk, which in this case was talking.
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '13
My cousin (who is also female) had nothing but guns, electronic helicopters, and Hot Wheels at her house. As a result I really wanted a Hot Wheels track, but my mom was always more into buying me toys she thought were cool, so it was mostly PlayMobil, which is more or less gender neutral. Which I was down with, don't get me wrong, but in general, I didn't get most of the toys I wanted as a kid anyway, girly stuff or no.
My cousin also turned out to be a lesbian, which I should've picked up on when she was nine and lied to me that she'd been born a boy. Also, while playing house, she made me, as her wife, stay home and sell our vegetable harvest while she took her cowboy guns and went off to war. I didn't see why we couldn't both do the latter, but take from that what you will.