Comment by waveman | Hacker News Reader

Comment by waveman | Hacker News Reader

I read her blog because it has some interesting ideas. However it reminds me of PZ Myers' blog in some ways. There is the same repetitive theme of how stupid all these people are compared to moi.

"Within six months, they had an actual user-affecting outage directly attributed to things on that team. We hadn't had any of them during my tenure running that service."

"As I've said before, enjoy your pages, guys. "

Maybe this is just typical sysadmin arrogance / all users are ID10Ts.

I also see signs of a paranoid attitude:

"I knew it was going to be a disaster and they'd use it against me".

Playing games of passive-aggressives:

"I was going to be cold and dry and only answer exactly what was asked of me."

Really if you drop of load on a co-worker in a team meeting you are going to get some blowback.

Her blog is also full of complaints of women not being treated fairly eg:

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/11/23/hiring/

(has to walk across the road to get to her car)

Unleash the white knights!

Your last comment about origAuthor desiring a secure environment to work in and extending that desire to the carpark is a bit rubbish.

If your employees have to be at work after dark then you should definitely organise safe conditions for them to get home. Women are more sensitive to this because they get attacked/raped by strangers a lot more often than men. It's the real world. You have to deal with it.

HNers should be able to deal with it when they realise they are wrong and need to change their thoughts and behaviour.

> Women are more sensitive to this because they get attacked/raped by strangers a lot more often than men.

Men are much more likely to be the victim of violence from strangers than women.

The vast majority of violence (including sexual violence and rape) against women is from people they know; "friends", husbands, colleagues.

This is a minor point though; I do agree that employers need to provide a safe environment for employees, and that women feel more at risk in dark car parks.

I worked in an office in the centre of Glasgow near the red light district.

One night one of our help desk girls (yes she was 18ish) was going home and a 'punter' asked her if 'she was working...'

'No' she says and he then punched her in the face and knocked her unconscious.

Unleash the white knights? Indeed.

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