Short & Deadly

[Treasure]

http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20051109.html

Shanky - you're a brat, now i have to read this strip.

[Magpie]

Shanky - you're a brat, now i have to read this strip.

Don't worry, there's only a few years, it's not updating anymore .

[BeeMused]

Just got told that I should leave the computers to men... like a good sweet girl... and the caller (old sounding guy) would take care of me.

I have this nice flogger with a very high OUCH value*. I'm willing to lend it out for a good purpose.


*Even light strokes will leave marks, a full swing will leave proper welts and might even draw blood.

[Merriweather]

Just got told that I should leave the computers to men... like a good sweet girl... and the caller (old sounding guy) would take care of me.

You have my sympathy and all the virtual margaritas you can drink

Can't believe crap like that is still happening (well, I can, but I don't want to ). I got my computer degree and began as a programmer is 1981, and had to put up with that all the time, but you'd think after 30 years people would finally have realized that technical/computer abilities are not stored in the penis.

[tropicsgoddess]

If he wanted a man for tech support....I'd give him one....by putting that fucking old codger back in the queue.

[TheRabbi]

Bardic,

You know I'll drive out there and help you get reeducate this guy. Just let me know a time and place.

-Rabbi

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

I guess he didn't know that many of the old computer operators in the 50's and 60's (UNIVAC days) were women. Google computer history and you'll see mostly women. I think many women were hired for the same reason telephone operators and Star Trek communications officers were women.

[Wenchie]

How did I miss this thread?

Wenchie knows about 100 times more about computers then me, and I am going to college for it (this is just FYI). That was just .. creepy. *hugs* sorry you had to put up with that hun.

Thanks.... ^_^ I stepped away from my computer, vented, and then laughed. His loss.

Nah, I vote for the Vlad Tepes method: find him and about 10,000 of his friends and stake them out in a Forest of Sucky Customers, to warn off the invading army of morons coming in less than two months.

*giggle* This will be my happy dream for a while!

I like my version better. (Of course, 5 x 30 minutes, due to his own stupidity and jerkness = tech support had a 2.5 hour wait before anyone answered!)

The funny thing is that in my department, on a normal day, there is only 1 male working. Some days there are 2. Some days, there are none. This particular day, there was 1 one guy on phones... the other 6 phone reps were women.

Bardic,

You know I'll drive out there and help you get reeducate this guy. Just let me know a time and place.

-Rabbi

Thanks Rabbi! :hugs:


Luckily for this guy, he refused to give me his name & agent id, so I don't have any way to track him. I say "luckily" because you should have seen my manager's face when I brought this up in my yearly review today. Though that wasn't as bad as the face she made when I reminded her of the agent who was not only creepily hitting on me, but who also made a point of telling me that he was undressing while on the phone with me... that was a while back, and she had forgotten about that one!

Apparently I attract the Uncle Creepy callers!

[Magpie]

I guess he didn't know that many of the old computer operators in the 50's and 60's (UNIVAC days) were women. Google computer history and you'll see mostly women. I think many women were hired for the same reason telephone operators and Star Trek communications officers were women.

According to my gender and technology required reading, science hired women for this - it was along the lines of clerical work, very appropriate for women. Businesses, on the other hand, had men doing the programming, it was a new, highly skilled field.

[TheCheerfulTreeRat]

Argh...

http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20051109.html

Thank you for that - I started reading it from the beginning a few hours ago - shame I should have been writing a report!