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first thing that struck me, the author complains about a stigma attached to knowing how computers work: >>"Rather than being some faceless, keyboard tapping, so
by ImprovedSilence 13y ago
first thing that struck me, the author complains about a stigma attached to knowing how computers work:
>>"Rather than being some faceless, keyboard tapping, socially inept, sexually inexperienced, network monkey, she now saw me as a colleague. To people like her, technicians are a necessary annoyance. She’d be quite happy to ignore them all, joke about them behind their backs, snigger at them to their faces,"
AND THEN, goes on to declare that yes, he is normally a sarcastic bastard who makes big deals out of inane verbiage:
>>"Normally I pull out my mobile phone and pretend to tap in a few numbers. Holding the handset to my ear I say ‘Yes, give me the office of the President of the United States… NO I WILL NOT HOLD, this is an emergency… Hello, Mister President, I’m afraid I have some bad news. I’ve just been informed that The Internet is not working.’"
And you wonder where the stereotypes come from....