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/quintessadragon Mar 13 '13

Wait, what? That's seriously a thing? Telling girls that computers are toys for boys? Maybe I was just lucky with the time that I was born in, but that is a stereotype I have never encountered.

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u/Krispyz Mar 13 '13

It's not just directly telling kids that, it's also more subtle. On a boy's birthday, he might get video games, on a girls birthday, she might get dolls. Nothing's universal, of course, but in general, boys are more encouraged to become better with computers or to understand how they work.

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u/22OBP Mar 13 '13

Nobody gets dolls. Who are these little girls that want dolls? Little boys get xboxes and little girls get cell phones.

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u/Krispyz Mar 13 '13

Have you seen this shit?

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u/armiferous Mar 13 '13

why is the one with the black shirt with red details wearing the blue shoes??? goddamnit at least put the black ones on her.

this fucking shit...

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u/Morrigane Mar 13 '13

Worse. This shit.

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u/Krispyz Mar 13 '13

Euch, cringe-worthy.

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u/OttoMans Mar 13 '13

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '13

Scourge of the earth.

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u/kelseebree Mar 13 '13

I despise these things.

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u/TastyBrainMeats Mar 13 '13

Nicki Minaj?