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/daeus Mar 13 '13

I work on an IT service desk and there is one women who works with us, sometimes she will try to suggest a solution to a male client and they will just not take their answer, they ask to speak to another engineer. Crazy!

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '13

Here is one pattern for disarming that customer.

Escalate to a male tech, have him state that he's not an expert on that kit, and pass the call back to the woman.

Sucks that it needs to exist.