A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.
-- Crystal Eastman --
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If you're a masochist who is curious about the budget proposed by Paul Ryan, you can find all 98 pages of it at http://budget.house.gov/uploadedfiles/pathtoprosperity2013.pdf.
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When I worked for IBM, there was a lot of blather from management about "quality", but that's just what it was - blather. We put out code that we knew was full of bugs, but we sent it out ON TIME, by damn! We techies hated it. Everybody said the word "quality" with a snort. Yeah, sure. What it came down to was that we had to beat the competition to market, Period. As far as sales and executives were concerned - "get it out first and fix it later", which eventually devolved to "get it out, and fix the bugs only if customers complain about them".
Well, judging by what I received the other day, that hasn't improved. What really gets me is that there isn't even any competition in this instance - just maybe a due date to be met.
There's a website for employees. I got an email saying that I should register for it. This is how:
Your IBM ID must have the format of a valid email address. It is uneditable and
[...later in the instructions, after the part about creating a password ...]
- must be no longer than 80 characters
- must contain an '@' character that separates the user and domain values (example: yourid@ipsname.com)
They have GOT to be kidding! How could anyone send that crap out with a straight face?
If your IBM ID is over 32 characters or contains an "@" symbol, it may not give you access to certain password-protected parts of [the site]. This is a known, temporary condition, where a shorter, simpler IBM ID is required to access those areas properly. If you haven't already created a secondary IBM ID, return to the area where you had trouble signing in, and follow the 'Register' link from there to create one.
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Well, ladies, it looks like all the advances of the libbers in the '70s have not penetrated some areas. The above photo accompanies one of those Yahoo sidebar ads, versions with captions like "One simple trick to beat the recession and make a fortune" or "One simple way to make a million dollars".Take a good look.
Now, who is that ad addressed to?
And what does it say about women?
Apparently, a woman is still a thing to be owned, a reward for good work, good for one thing only, and we don't mind if she's a golddigger if she's got a chest full of silicone.
They could have shown him with a fancy car. Car = woman, woman = car, same thing, same amount of respect.
Bah!
2 comments:
I wondered about how effective women's lib was way back in the late 70s, when the original "Charlie's Angels" hit the airwaves. On the one hand, it was nice that three women were shown as law enforcement officers, but that was ruined by the fact that all three were gorgeous, stick-thin models and their characters were under the supervision of an all-powerful man. WTF? I wondered. Then came "Three's Company," with Suzanne Sommers as the crowning glory of the dumb-blonde archtype.
Sigh. I've continued to alternately marvel and despair at how little the women's liberation movement changed, at least in our media-saturated cultural world.
That Pres. Obama even had to sign the Lilly Ledbetter Act so that women could litigate equal pay for equal work says just about everything about the continuing problem, in my opinion.
Great blog, by the way. I'm enjoying your sense of humor and wit.
Thank you, Sister of the Barricades.
"Feminazi" is an insult. How did that happen? And how did today's young women learn that they have to dress like sex objects? (Where did such scorn for pants suits come from?)
I still don't understand....
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