Comments on: Fry’s http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/30/frys/ Religion, SF, and Other Speculative Fictions. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: John http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/30/frys/comment-page-1/#comment-21238 John Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:10:29 +0000 http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1243#comment-21238 God, I hope this becomes a generational thing. It's cool to see how tech savvy my daughter and her friends are. I wonder, too, if working at a university helps--my team of programmers is split pretty evenly (of the career staff I helped to hire, based on qualifications, two are women and one is male). My boss, my division webmaster, the Registrar, the campus data warehouse admins and many of the other tech experts I turn to are women. God, I hope this becomes a generational thing. It’s cool to see how tech savvy my daughter and her friends are.

I wonder, too, if working at a university helps–my team of programmers is split pretty evenly (of the career staff I helped to hire, based on qualifications, two are women and one is male). My boss, my division webmaster, the Registrar, the campus data warehouse admins and many of the other tech experts I turn to are women.

]]> By: Cobwebs http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/30/frys/comment-page-1/#comment-21231 Cobwebs Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:12:54 +0000 http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1243#comment-21231 Egad. I haven't thought about Fry's since I moved out of CA over a decade ago. In this topsy-turvy world it's nice to hear that some things remain constant; Fry's customer service has sucked for at least 15 years. I remember the condescending "this technology is far too advanced for you to grasp, little lady" attitude, too. Since I was a Unix administrator at the time, I'd start asking them esoteric OS questions that they couldn't answer just to watch them get flustered. Egad. I haven’t thought about Fry’s since I moved out of CA over a decade ago. In this topsy-turvy world it’s nice to hear that some things remain constant; Fry’s customer service has sucked for at least 15 years.

I remember the condescending “this technology is far too advanced for you to grasp, little lady” attitude, too. Since I was a Unix administrator at the time, I’d start asking them esoteric OS questions that they couldn’t answer just to watch them get flustered.

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