re: #252 Obdicut

I was at a software company where a woman got made the head of a department. Making it 1 female department heads to 9 male department heads.

Instantly, people were talking about ‘affirmative action’. Because, you know, when a group that makes up 50% of the population is represented at 10%, you obviously think that they must be getting an unfair advantage.

Sigh.

I got some grief from guys at an IT data center for recommending a female (black at that, and in Texas) to take over my shift supervisor position when I resigned to move back up home.

They thought that was just terrible. They had been there as long as her and knew as much about the data center operations as her, and on and on. Finally I had to tell them that she had a better disposition for and grasp of the position then they did. Left a few people there a little bitter I guess.