<div dir="ltr">But - gotta say... he WAS a drummer.<div><br></div><div>'nuf said.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 November 2014 at 12:28, Savage, John L <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:savage.john.l@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">savage.john.l@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I teach in a girls college, so boys don’t get a look in! But here’s a little anecdote that illustrates some of the ingrained attitudes in IT:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Outside my day job I work in a few bands. I rolled up to a gig and there was a young, cool dude filling in on the drums. We got to talking and I discovered
the rather cool sports car outside that I’d been admiring was his and he was a Web App developer with a small, very successful business. We got to talking and the conversation veered to COBOL as it usually does. I mentioned Grace Hopper as the pioneer of that
arcane language and he responded “Oh, she must be a lesbian.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Enough said. Why would you choose to work in an environment with colleagues like that?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Laurie Savage<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>I enjoy non-sequiturs because... cows.</i></div><div><br></div><div><div>Have I offended any drummers with this post? I would not be surprised.<br></div><div>If offended, please whinge to me at the email address above. </div><div>(The email address is the one with "@" in it.)</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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