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[Thayer Prime]

Eurgh, I genuinely feel quite sick from that. I know which company
I'll be ensuring to warn devs off when they come asking where to work.
FFS.


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Thayer Prime <thayer at team-prime.com> wrote:
> 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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