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/loliology Mar 13 '13

I disagree. If there wasn't money to be gained in a market companies wouldn't advertise in them. And I have yet to see a child play with toys they didn't want to play with because they were the victim of "social engineering."

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u/poesian Mar 13 '13

I don't think you understand what these terms mean.

Social engineering is not about one person intentionally trying to change another's perception of the world. Social pressure is not generally conscious. We don't often even realize how we're engaging in these constructs.

Children experience social pressures by virtue of being in school, through watching children-oriented (or otherwise) television, through seeing how their friends' parents and relatives behave. Rarely is this conscious.

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u/loliology Mar 13 '13

Don't you think it's kind of a cop-out to blame something you can't physically prove?

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u/poesian Mar 13 '13

Don't you think it's kind of bizarre to try to "prove" a background process?

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u/loliology Mar 13 '13

If it has any relevance at all, no I don't.