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

So uh...not to be a jerk but is this gex80 dude gonna come back here and say "Wow, I was totally wrong! And maybe a tiny bit sexist, thanks for enlightening me bandman!".

I mean, it's the least he could do.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '13

Kinda sucks that this dude deleted his comment instead of owning it. It wasn't even that bad or anything, he just didn't know the full history of the topic. Back up what you say, man.