Just who exactly is our new oracle DominiConnor????

[moondog]

I like it all.

[ruty]

oh well she's had a baby? You see that the problem with women...

[noddyholder]

I am liking him he is getting you all going and mumsnet has been rather dull of late!

[zippitippitoes]

like country living or something?

[EnidVonTeese]

doesn't she edit Hair?

not difficult to get everyone going if you spout a load of reactionary sexist bolleaux I find

[dinosaure]

Don't worry tamum, I'll reel her in first!

ruty

[dinosaure]

Yawn, we have been here before. Provocative f*er, as Derek and Clive might say. It's all very reminiscent of Dadslib, another computer jerk. Anyone remember Dadslib?

[EnidVonTeese]

sure do


unfortunately

[DominiConnor]

Like you I was a contractor in the City before going permie.

The non-IT IT women I cited were in media not the City.
We mostly do finance, specfically quant analysts, people wot do hard sums for banks. The work does involve harcore programming as well.
We see occasional women, but their frequency is so low I can't see how we could measure their relative quality, even if we cared.

The City is not family friendly, but very few areas of business are these days. Guess it's worse than the average, but the average is pretty grim.

It's possible that dinosaure's friend may be shall we say embellishing her role at PC Mag. When I was there about 25% of the editorial staff had "editor" somewhere in their job title. (I didn't).

If she did overlap with me, and exists at all, she will do doubt reply that I was fired 3 times by PC Mag which is not quite true, that I was thrown across a bar by Bill Gates PR woman, which is true, and that I don't write anymore which is not only untrue but that I earn more at it than her, but not much.
And yes, I did have a very untidy desk.


It's possible that in the last couple of months of PC Mag's existence as a magazine, a woman was put in charge, though that's even less impressive than my own somewhat tarnished career in that business given that it went from the top mag in the business to extinct very quickly.

I've checked with one of the last rats to leave that ship as it sunk, and he has confirmed that PC Mag never had a woman editor.
If it is who I think it might be ask her if she still doesn't know what Config.sys does ?



Hmm, DC, if you're still pimping, most of the women IT folks you're seeing are in the financial markets? Or do you pimp financials, rather than IT folk?

[spidermama]

Zzzzzzzz.

[arfissimeau]

Oooh. Do you need a female IT bod? What do you want me to debate?

First rule of IT: when you leave a job say "So long and thanks for all the fish".

I've been in IT for 18 years - a lot longer than a lot of the men out there. I was programming at 10. I do Unix too, not PCs. Unix is for REAL engineers. I do Linux, C++, Perl and the proper stuff. I do this within a telecomms environment (go on, ask me about 3G/2G/WCDMA/GSM etc). I have a good line in AI progamming.

I also (allegedly) have a normal appearance, do not wear leggings, speak klingon, and am quite capable of talking normally to non-IT (Ok, normal) people.

Last permie job I I/V'd for was at director level.

[dinosaure]

Oh, she exists, and she remembers you .

[tamum]

Did the words misogynistic and arse get mentioned at all, dino?

[Blu]

"Was quite shocked the first time one pointed out a hole in a piece of mine about hardwired maths on chips. "
DC - you are a bit obnoxious sometimes (the 'one' in the sentence above refers to a woman)
That, and you casual assumption that martianBishop was a man because she is a science grad, and your assertion that Arab society is 'defective'.

[MrsMills]

and the fact that you are completely obsessed with your earnings.

Yawn.

[ruty]

you sounded a touch paranoid in your last post DC.

[arfissimeau]

Oh & DC, config.sys is a now legacy file . Do you mean config.nt?

[georginarf]

"At various points in my life I've tried to use my pathetically small influence to increase the number of owmen in IT. Not only have I failed miserably, but the number is rapidly decreasing"

How, exactly? By insinuating that many of 'them' that you've worked with are technophobic imposters in a crass generalistion posted on a website mainly created by and contibuted to by women? Or by some other means that you'd care to elucidate?

No wonder you've failed miserably!

From a woman who works in IT, and has encountered just as many (if not slightly more)technophobic men as women.

[ruty]

oh don't burst the bubble arfissimeau.

[arfissimeau]

But I'm having so much fun!

[tamum]

Excellent post if I may say so, georginarf. I'm sure you shouldn't be troubling your pretty little head with all this technology stuff though, should you? Why not go and have a nice cup of tea.

[arfissimeau]

Alas. I have to go to bed.

Note to DC: Because I was headhunted to Sydney

Note to ladies: Of course, I'm not normally this vulgar, but felt it had to be done to prove a point.

[tamum]

Please feel free to be as vulagr as you like, arfissimeau, I think most of us have come to the conclusion that the gloves are off from now on :o

[Pruni]

You know, this thread is becoming very funny. And has potential for deletion. Keep at it, everyone - and someone please save a copy if it does look like being deleted.

[moondog]

Why did you think I started it Pruni????

[dinosaure]

Good point, Pruni. What's the old saying about giving rope and hanging? I've saved DC's choice comments about women editors.