You know you’re an alcoholic when…
You spill wine on your laptop and instead of freaking out about the laptop, you try to figure out how to suck the wine out from under the keys.
Friday, December 10, 2004
Enginerd
I went to engineering school for two reasons: 1. I was good at math (and let’s be honest, what do you ACTUALLY do with math?), and 2. the boys. The latter wasn’t really a reason, but it was a nice perk.
The really cool thing about being a WOMAN engineer is that there’s really not very many of us. In fact, I am the only woman engineer in my entire building, and in meetings I am usually the only woman period. The greatest thing about this is that I feel this huge sense of accomplishment…
Until I have meetings like the one I had today. I understand fully that other parts of the world have different views on the roles of women, but I am a firm believer of the fact that if someone comes to the United States, and works in the United States, they should be accepting of the way we accomplish things here.
I am the lead engineer on a program for a Middle Eastern country, and coincidentally the head of that program for my company is from the Middle East. When I ask him questions, he answers faced away from me directing his replies towards other people. When I write him emails, he doesn’t respond. When I tell him we have a problem, he laughs like I’m a little girl who doesn’t know what she’s talking about.
Interestingly, this is the same guy who, on a business trip to London, drank a bit too much and slobbered all over my hand. Ewe. Really, being a woman sucks sometimes.
