RE: Re: Summing up and moving on (I hope)

Hi, Bill,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Walton [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 8:48 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [XC] Re: Summing up and moving on (I hope)
<snip>

Another source of the perception of
> disdain derives from the dress / hygiene "code" which says to the business
> person like "I'm more important than you.  You can tell because you have to
> dress nice and I can wear jeans and not wash my hair."

Bill, for > 4 years I was a UNIX system adminstrator.  Some days I got to sit there and
look pretty, like a receptionist.

Other days I had to crawl on my hands and knees under desks, in the crawl space, with the
mouse droppings and spiders and the spiderwebs and dust.  There was no way to plan ahead
when cabling crises would happen... and when I bent over the desk to plug in your cable
my panties would have shown if I'd worn a skirt...

I never went to work dirty, but I often came home dirty.  And if the cable problem was at
9 in the am... I can just imagine what non-IT people said about me...

But Bill, what confuses me is, you were/are IT... you *started* as a programmer, didn't
you?  Didn't you wash and dress nice *then*?

Just adding some levity, and a almost flash of panties,

Kay







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