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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.'"
I am not a sexist, but it has to be said that (at least in programming jobs) women simply are inferior to men.
I think its probably because computers are logical, and womens minds work at a more emotional level compared to mens.
I remember once having to completely re-write one module of our mission-critical stock lending system because the woman who programmed it had no concept of a thread-pool. I mean, this is the sort of thing that would be flat out obvious to a male developer.
The only downside of this that I can see is that IT can be a pretty difficult place to meet a partner unless you're a gay guy who likes geeks with no fashion sense. However, on balance, I think the amount of wasted effort that will be saved by guys not having to 'clean up the mess' from over-emotional female developers means that women leaving IT is overall a good thing.
What's 40% of zero?
It sounds like you hired a stripper as a network and storage manager. What's her real name?
Hmmm...my choices are an all-male IT staff or additional childcare staffing and space expenses? Sorry, but you're making it too easy.
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> Look, you're hired to do a job. If you can't or won't do it, find a different job...
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Exactly. Even Zonk got this one right when he picked the Dept for this article. This IS the Free Market in action. Women are putting different priorities on the work/family problem and coming up with different choices. I thought that was what we all wanted, freedom to choose our own course through life. Women are DIFFERENT, guess some people are just noticing that isn't just a case of some people having boobies and some not. I say whatever works for them, regardless if HR people have nightmares because it is messing with their quotas. (That they don't have of course.)
The suggested 'solution', grossly inflating the compensation packages and reducing the job description for a position based on gender, should be seen as a condescending insult. But of course it won't. In fact it is exactly what will be done because it is ALL about the numbers.
Just another anchor large operations get to carry around in the global marketplace to satisfy PC stupidity. In a way it is their own fault because large corporations love to use the power of the State to keep competitors small, problem is a government big enough for that is also big enough to be used for PC silliness by OTHER special interests. Won't matter though, small nimble upstarts continually chew up and recycle old stale corps.... and become new megacorps who beat down thier competition with similar tactics, become old and lumbering, repeat.
[yes, if I don't get modded troll for what follows I'll be disappointed]
Of course what is really throwing the sand in the vaginas of the feminists is how this represents yet another sign of the total failure of their philosophy. They had a dream. Men and women were interchangable units, not just equal but identical in ability, ambition and goals... if only they could deprogram women from their incorrect notions.. and convince them that their only unique role in propagating the species was childbirth.
And for a generation it almost worked. Women bought the pitch and entered the workforce and the professions with a will, many forgoing children entirely and the rest tossing their kids into daycare (or buying a nanny for the upperclass feminist leaders) as soon as they recovered from delivery enough to work again. And it was working! The glass ceiling was only a speed bump, another generation and total victory was in sight.
Then something unexpected happened. Those abandoned kids grew up. Disfunctional in ways never seen, but apparently not willing to repeat the mistakes of their parents. Looking at THEIR offspring it is apparent that most haven't a clue HOW to parent, but they are trying. In a world gone stark raving mad, still bent on destroying the notions that make a traditional family impossible by law, policy, custom and culture more and more of em seem determined to try. Guess it is now the counter culture thing to do? Being 'normal' is now an act of rebellion?
Democrat delenda est
Can't get a root, huh?
There is no such thing as rape. Any female who leaves her rightful place in the house and the kitchen is fucking begging for cock in her holes. If she gets the cock she so badly is asking for, it's not fucking rape, it's a damn slut getting what she fucking deserves.
Males still rule this fucking world. In most of the world, a fucking bitch can get killed for looking at a man straight in the eye. In America and Europe, every day dumb sluts get their holes penetrated without their so-called consent, which isn't rape, just them getting the fucking dick they deserve up their asses.
Sexual abuse is on the rise, spousal abuse is on the rise and more bitches die every year. Fucking cunts. I am so glad I was born a man. I am so glad there is a bunch of retarded sluts jumping trough hoops just to get my cock.
Haha, females are so fucking sad. We treat you bitches like shit, and you still spend time, money and effort on trying to look good for us. Way to be a good slave, whores. Now keep acting like sluts and sucking our cocks. And if you change your mind after you leave the house, too fucking bad, you're getting your holes fucked and there isn't shit you can do about it because that's your only fucking purpose in life.