As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People

Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People by sudosteph on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:17PM (#14975408)

Oh please, do tell me how you are so in tune with how a "large population of females"(weird wording btw?) feel.

I've been in that position and I felt the same as the author in this particular regard. Obviously sexist clients made me angry to deal with in the moment, but they're the same as any other type of asshole when you come right down to it. And sleep time is too precious to waste thinking about assholes.

I still loved my job and coworkers and would recommend it to other women. Sure sexism exists, but it exists everywhere. Why miss out on a good gig because bad customers exist?

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Re:As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People by true_religion on Thursday August 10, 2017 @12:08AM (#14976262)

I'm not the op.

I was waitstaff once. I quit on day 2. I am sure if you surveyed most waitresses, they'd say they don't lose any sleep over the kind of sexual harassment faced from customers but that's survivors bias in my opinion.

Anyone who did lose sleep, like I did, quit like I did unless of course they had no choice but to go on because they needed the income.

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