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Women Are Fleeing IT Jobs
Lucas123 writes "An alarming number of women are currently abandoning IT jobs that require workers to be on-call at all hours, according to a story in Computerworld. One study cited in the article states that by 2012, 40% of women now working in IT will leave for careers with more flexible hours. 'I think women in that regard are at a real disadvantage,' said Dot Brunette, network and storage manager at Meijer Inc., a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer and a 30-year IT veteran. She noted that companies can fail to attract female workers, or see them leave key IT jobs, because they fail to provide day care at work, or work-at-home options for someone who leaves to have a child.'"
More jobs for me!!!
Innumerable tentacles wriggled with glee, entering every single orifice (including pores) that the victim -- a beautiful woman -- had. ... that's the beginning to the devil summoning ritual! How could a bear do that?!
Thus violated, the woman writhed with unspeakable pleasure.
And then.
She died.
A man ran to try to help the woman, and then he died too.
Two brown bears abruptly started copulating next to the two corpses!
Their hips were violently crashing into each other!
With indescribable force!
Whoa! I never knew that brown bears having sex was an invincible force of nature!
Wait! The female brown bear's moans! OMGWTFBBQ!
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My god
This means the world ends today! Tomorrow will never come!
Ejaculation! A baby bear was born!
That bear cub was really cute, too, especially the way it was smiling, yes?
And then Gordon Freeman came along and beat the bear cub to death with a crowbar. Mission accomplished.
WAIT, IS THIS GORDON FREEMAN'S SO-CALLED HEROISM?!
"Yo, dude, Kanagawa Bancho here. Anyway, yeah, I know, that was totally uncool. I don't have any imagination OR motivation, my good man! Gao-gao."
"Anyway! Just let me say one last thing! One last thing, I swear!"
"Y'know, they say that the only thing hatred gives birth to is hatred. That's wrong, don'tcha think? See, when you hate, you become hungry. When you cast that hatred onto vegetables, curry rice gets made in a flash, right? THEREFORE, HATRED GIVES BIRTH TO CURRY! QED."
The cynic in me says "Why would they care? They'll just outsource a lot of those jobs anyway."
The other side of me says "I hope not" since I'm trying to find helpdesk work in a certain area so I can make a move, for personal reasons, later this year.
i am a soviet space shuttle
Fraklin Com
she could register mrs.com
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
"Dot" is a nickname - it's short for "Dorothy".
As for her last name: Brunette is French for "brown", basically:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunette
And it doesn't appear to be that uncommon a last name in Michigan, which isn't all that surprising, considering its history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan
Regards,
dj
With all the lead in that "rod" management has in their lower intestines, and the number of H1B visas being passed out in DC like candy to rich companies who buy congressmen, computing in America is over! I'm changing careers to material science - now that is a career area with no user manual and no way to "assembly line" my work. It would be nice if management could work from home - and we could brick up their windows and doors (snort!)
Finished cleaning out the grease pans early tonight, did we, Mr. Summers?
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