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- = F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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- about work
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- So I'm a chick. A chick that happens to be a unix system administrator
- with about 3 years of experience. During those three years I have
- learned more than syslog and perl. I have learned that Women Aren't
- Supposed to Know How to Use a Computer. I have worked for two
- companies. In both of them, my job description is, in nicer terms,
- Grunt. In both teams I have been a part of, I have been the equivalent
- of the nice assistant who gets coffee for her boss. While Senior Unix
- Rocket Scientists 1 and 2 go off to add new services, change and
- design network architectures, and Make the World a Better Place,
- I wrestle with backups, adduser, and alias files.
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- Why is this, I wonder? I have a few theories. One possible theory is
- that because men have penises, they must also have more brain power.
- Like the stegosaurus with a smart tail, the penis makes complicated
- things like TCP/IP much easier for men to understand. Another theory
- is that breasts suck intelligence from women. Women have to support
- all of that extra body fat, which takes more energy, which makes time
- for comprehension of things like file descriptors simply too
- difficult. Makes the brain smaller, you know? My favorite theory,
- though, is that many of the men in this industry are simply pigs.
- They like having A Chick on the team so that they have someone
- they can feel superior to. Even if they are complete nimrods, they
- can rest easy in the knowledge that their manager will gladly place
- the blame on the dumb gash who doesn't know how to do anything.
- Plus, it's someone they can make fun of without repercussion,
- because if The Chick complains, she probably will never be able to
- work in the industry again. Since I have been a system administrator,
- I have had disk drives thrown at me, I have been called an idiot,
- I have been patted on the ass, I have been asked about my sex life,
- and a host of other things which never seem to happen to Rocket
- Scientists 1 and 2.
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- So now that we have established that there are a ton of male swine
- in the computer industry, let's talk about the women. There seems
- to be 2 major types of female computer geeks. There are the
- Femme Fatales and the Butch Bitches. The Femme Fatales wear skirts
- while they program, smile a lot and ask silly questions, and bat
- their eyes when asking for favors. The swine seem to like the Femmes,
- mostly because they appeal to their ego. You can see it when they
- talk to the Femme - you can tell how difficult it is for them to
- control the urge to beat their chests and make mating cries while
- helping the Femme get that nasty PCI video card into the right slot.
- Sad thing is, she probably knows how to do it, but she is smart
- enough to ask for help so that the Rocket Scientist doesn't feel
- threatened. Then there are the Butch Bitches. I am one of those.
- The Butch Bitches use rough language, always wear jeans, avoid
- make-up, and volunteer to carry heavy things so that the Rocket
- Scientist understands that she is not a weakling. While the Femme
- Fatale appeals to the Rocket Scientist's protector instinct, the
- Butch Bitch tries to be one of the guys. That's how disk drives
- get thrown at the Butch Bitch - she projects that attitude that
- she can take anything and more. For some reason, the Butch Bitch
- approach doesn't work as well as the Femme Fatale approach, I think,
- mostly because deep down the Rocket Scientist *knows* that the
- Butch Bitch does not have a penis.
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- So, what to do? I think I will have to go shopping soon. I might
- be able to find some skirts I like, maybe one or two pairs of heels,
- some doe-eyed make-up effects... It might not be too late to be a
- Femme Fatale.
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- Anonymous
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