[LRUG] I Love Ruby

[Thayer Prime]

Yep, sorry - I find that hugely offensive, and one of the things that
stopped me being the (token?) female dev.

Grim.

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Sam Livingston-Gray <geeksam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Quite. In a nutshell, to treat any human being as though they were a
> facility or form of compensation instead of having agency is so deeply and
> fundamentally disrespectful that the word "disrespectful" seems inadequate
> to the task, causing one to reach for, e.g., "misogyny" instead.
>
> Compared to that, the fact that I don't especially like beer and can't stand
> it when people misspell "espresso" (see also
> twitter.com/yaykyle/status/347013342159847424) seem like positively trivial
> complaints.
>
> --
> Sent from a device with a virtual keyboard. Please excuse terseness,
> top-posting, hilarity introduced by autocorrect.
>
> On Jul 15, 2013, at 10:59 PM, Mark Burns <markthedeveloper at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I stayed out of the gender conversation last time, but I'm going to stick my
> neck out, and without meaning to speak on behalf of women, I'm just going to
> say that it is exactly this kind of thing that makes the community
> unwelcoming to women.
> I can't count how many ways it is offensive to list female developers as a
> number on a list of attractive features of a company.
>
>
> On 16 July 2013 01:04, Richard Green <richard at evvnt.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well it's certainly been an interesting week signing up to the Ruby Users
>> Group and I've learn quite a few things...
>>
>> 1. Don't double email (foolish)
>>
>> 2. [JOB] posts require title filters.
>> I'm undecided as whether this is to prevent the post going to developers
>> or to direct the post to recruitment agencies.
>>
>> Well the scores on the doors
>>
>> Developers 0 - 8 Recruiters
>>
>> I think the recruiters are winning...
>>
>> 3. Ruby developers have quality banter and like to squish themselves in to
>> tiny pubs, drink lots of beer and chat projects and code. More of point 3
>> required.
>>
>> So in the art of snaring a ruby developer in the next 6 weeks, what temps
>> these rare creatures out of their natural habit to venture to pastures
>> new...
>>
>> Let me know which of the following would tempt you from you desk...
>>
>>
>> 1. Keg of beer and beer tap fitted to your development desk?
>>
>> 2. The recruitment fee as your welcome gift?
>>
>> 3. 4 day week?
>>
>> 4. Building your own team of 4 from scratch
>>
>> 5. Shares and equity (so dull)
>>
>> 6. Commission from online sales.
>>
>> 7. An endless jar of Cadbury chocolate eclairs...
>>
>> 8. 4X female french, italian and spanish junior / front and backend
>> developers
>>
>> 9. Your own Expresso coffee machine with frothy milk maker...
>>
>> 10. 30 days paid holiday if taken in December and August.
>>
>> I'm looking for your best number or a combination of up to 3...
>>
>> Richard Green
>> evvnt.com
>>
>> CONFESSION:: I have yet to read the rules on posting, I'm hoping humour
>> makes it through the filter.
>> 07787 527499
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