Our Engineers And Other Techies Can Probably Relate

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There must be an end to this intimidation by those who come to this great country, but reject its culture.
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I've worked with many technically competent women. I even married one. I've also worked with women who were in tech jobs without the competence needed.

The good ones act as if concrete results matter more than appearances and feelings, I.e. like (technically competent) men.

The kind of girly girl games the article talks about are far from being restricted to females these days.
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You, reader, put this matter to a test: You are sitting now in your office—six clerks are within your call. Summon any one and make this request: “Please look in the encyclopedia and make a brief memorandum for me concerning the life of Corregio.”
Will the clerk quietly say, “Yes, sir,” and go do the task? On your life, he will not. He will look at you out of a fishy eye, and ask one or more of the following questions:
Who was he?
Which encyclopedia?
Where is the encyclopedia?
Was I hired for that?
Don’t you mean Bismarck?
What’s the matter with Charlie doing it?
Is he dead?
Is there any hurry?
Shan’t I bring you the book and let you look it up yourself?
What do you want to know for?
And I will lay you ten to one that after you have answered the questions, and explained how to find the information, and why you want it, the clerk will go off and get one of the other clerks to help him find Garcia - and then come back and tell you there is no such man. Of course I may lose my bet, but according to the Law of Average, I will not.
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Ayup... aligns with my experiences.
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I'm thinking I read that somewhere recently in Nock.
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