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Re:On Technical Entitlement by Tichy on Friday June 29, 2012 @08:11PM (#4179862)
Can you explain what is wrong with that Google page? Serious question. Do these guys come across as unfriendly in any way? Or is the problem that they don't look like George Clooney? That they are wearing glasses perhaps?

What kind of things would the hypothetical female engineers have arranged on their desks? Perhaps fully automated doll houses where you can switch on a LED in the oven?

Re:On Technical Entitlement by ixacto on Saturday June 30, 2012 @05:57PM (#4182939)
Their office looks disorganized, they look exactly like the negative stereotype of a programmer. I'll leave that you to figure out ;).

This is what IBM and Microsoft think their employees look like:

http://careers.microsoft.com/careers/en/us/home.aspx http://www-03.ibm.com/employment/us/

Re:On Technical Entitlement by Tichy on Saturday June 30, 2012 @08:09PM (#4183243)
I just can't wrap my mind around it: a discussion complaining about excluding people from entering the tech world with a comment ridiculing people in the tech world. Who should I sympathize with?

Personally I can not see anything negative about those Google programmers. Their office looks disorganized? Really? Because women are always tidy? And even so - are you saying that people who don't organize their offices well should not allowed to become engineers, because it harms the engineering occupation? Or that people who look like programmers should not allowed to be programmers? Or that programmers who look like programmers (whatever that means) should be made to not look like programmers? None of that makes any sense to me.

What makes sense to me is that people should mind their own businesses. If you want to become a techie and like an organized office, organize your office. I don't see the problem.