So today.
I wish I could have videoed it, at one point I did look around for cameras.
So my name can be male or female in this country but in many of the countries I work with it is mainly a male name.
I've been consulted by one of our teams about an area that is my area of expertise. All communication has been via email until today.
The reason I was first consulted was that the team wanted a particular task to be done on a particular system.
I explained in email that the system wasn't set up that way, there was no way to amend it without costing millions if not billions, but if they did A, B & C they would get the result they needed.
All fine and dandy, everyone happy with this, we moved on.
It's now nearly 3 months later, the task has been done and the team are visiting my local office.
I get invited to a meeting partly to network, partly to deal with another issue that has occurred in the last few days.
I arrive with a male colleague who is (a in a totally different role to me and (b several points/steps junior to me. (and just for full disclosure, I'm also several years decades older)
So they know that (names have been changed to protect the innocent) Alex the expert and Sam the junior Admin are attending the meeting.
We arrive for the coffee and mingle, 2 of them approach Sam, saying 'Alex how lovely to finally meet you, come and meet the rest of the team.And start sweeping him away.
I hurmp loudly and say actually I'm Alex.
Genuine look of shock on at least 3 faces.
So we carry on and get to the work part of the meeting, they ask me about the new issue I explain why it is how it is and that to achieve what they want they need to do X,Y & Z.
I get bombarded with questions.
Why am I now saying do X, Y, Z when before I said do A,B,C.
Because they are 2 totally different situations and require different approaches.
I then get 15 minutes of been told that no actually they're the same and this is why......from a dickhead who 3 months ago didn't even know these systems existed. With Dickhead 2 & 3 chiming in and talking over me everytime I open my mouth.
Comparing the 2 tasks was as ridiculous as stating that because a steak and a blueberry are both edible they are completely the same thing (maybe not the best way to explain but I'm hungry)
Sam, God love him, sat like this 
I had a bit of the Divil in me to quote my Mum, so I open my laptop and say go ahead, here it is, you go for it.
Of course he couldn't, but he was sure it was possible, which I said yes it is possible to do so, however as I said we'd have to completely reconfigure the system and it would cost billions.
Ahh! says Dickhead, so I am right it can be done you said it couldn't...very proud of himself.
So I pull up the email where I state that while it is technically possible to reconfigure the system, to do the task, it would cost billions. And scroll down to show where he agreed with me and said 'well you're the expert, we'll go with what you say.'
So why was I the expert then and to be deferred to and now I'm not........
I wonder why???
It shut him up for then, but Sam told me later 3 of them cornered him and asked him to confirm if I was right, bear in mind at the start of the meeting when I was 'formally' introduced my qualifications and experience in the industry was stated and when Sam was introduced it was stated that this was his first job in the industry, and he'd only been in post a few months.
(And had only been invited to help carry my equipment, sort any catering issues and to let him see what happened at one of these meetings so when he was setting them up for others he'd know what was needed)
So between that and been called a fucking rape apologist on another thread I've had enough today.
Time for a big glass of whiskey, or as a woman am I not allowed such a manly drink? Will it be ok if I sip it rather than gulp and put an umbrella in it?