Comment Wildly illogical (Score 1) 2
See the advertisement, "trailer", on Vimeo. Quoting from the Vimeo page: "Sorry, comments have been disabled by the owner of this video."
The trailer begins with this, quoting exactly: "There will be 1.4 million jobs by 2020 in the computing-related fields. Less than 29% of them are gonna be filled by Americans." By "Americans" she means people in the United States. (Not South Americans). But the U.S. has only 5% of the world population!
Also, I would think that someone making an ad for a documentary would use correct English, and say "will be" instead of "are gonna be".
Comments at the Atlantic story:
"Rhein Ouaiffe":
"That blonde in the picture is no coder. Not a tech writer either; too good looking. She's HR or sales.
"If you hate someone, really hate her, then encourage her to become a coder. Sweatshop conditions, no office, not even a cubicle these days, but elbow-to-elbow with coworkers on a big noisy barn-like floor. Deadline pressure. Lots of colleagues who can't speak or write intelligible English. Indian bosses who were raised to think of women as slaves, and who are not shy about preferring their co-ethnics in hiring and promotions. Yeah, great career, go for it."
"Silverbullet Live" responded to Rhein Ouaiffe:
"If you hate someone, really hate her, then encourage her to become a coder. Sweatshop conditions, no office, not even a cubicle these days, but elbow-to-elbow with coworkers on a big noisy barn-like floor. Deadline pressure. Lots of colleagues who can't speak or write intelligible English. Indian bosses who were raised to think of women as slaves, and who are not shy about preferring their co-ethnics in hiring and promotions.
"Your statement is a hell of a lot more true than this bullshit article. I've see coder conditions go from fair to horrible. Specifications seem to get worse by the day. I've seen both Asian and Indian bosses come and go. They can't talk, read, or understand English well; they also don't understand production problems have to be fixed now! I feel sorry for the Indian women who work for them. The new sarcasm in my shop is "if you were born in the USA that disqualifies you for a management position". The customers get more and more steamed everyday and for shortcuts they contact one of the "legacy guys". I've seen Indian coder guys come in, the contractor companies threatens to cut off their working Visa, so they take a pay cut. Nothing brings Asians, Muslims, Indians, Blacks, and Whites together faster than the cold fact that the new boss is clueless but writes your evaluation.
"I went into programming in college because there was a recession and the civil engineering field was not that good. I would tell a resident-of-the-USA woman she should go into engineering, the medical field, sales, or anything OTHER than coding."
The trailer begins with this, quoting exactly: "There will be 1.4 million jobs by 2020 in the computing-related fields. Less than 29% of them are gonna be filled by Americans." By "Americans" she means people in the United States. (Not South Americans). But the U.S. has only 5% of the world population!
Also, I would think that someone making an ad for a documentary would use correct English, and say "will be" instead of "are gonna be".
Comments at the Atlantic story:
"Rhein Ouaiffe":
"That blonde in the picture is no coder. Not a tech writer either; too good looking. She's HR or sales.
"If you hate someone, really hate her, then encourage her to become a coder. Sweatshop conditions, no office, not even a cubicle these days, but elbow-to-elbow with coworkers on a big noisy barn-like floor. Deadline pressure. Lots of colleagues who can't speak or write intelligible English. Indian bosses who were raised to think of women as slaves, and who are not shy about preferring their co-ethnics in hiring and promotions. Yeah, great career, go for it."
"Silverbullet Live" responded to Rhein Ouaiffe:
"If you hate someone, really hate her, then encourage her to become a coder. Sweatshop conditions, no office, not even a cubicle these days, but elbow-to-elbow with coworkers on a big noisy barn-like floor. Deadline pressure. Lots of colleagues who can't speak or write intelligible English. Indian bosses who were raised to think of women as slaves, and who are not shy about preferring their co-ethnics in hiring and promotions.
"Your statement is a hell of a lot more true than this bullshit article. I've see coder conditions go from fair to horrible. Specifications seem to get worse by the day. I've seen both Asian and Indian bosses come and go. They can't talk, read, or understand English well; they also don't understand production problems have to be fixed now! I feel sorry for the Indian women who work for them. The new sarcasm in my shop is "if you were born in the USA that disqualifies you for a management position". The customers get more and more steamed everyday and for shortcuts they contact one of the "legacy guys". I've seen Indian coder guys come in, the contractor companies threatens to cut off their working Visa, so they take a pay cut. Nothing brings Asians, Muslims, Indians, Blacks, and Whites together faster than the cold fact that the new boss is clueless but writes your evaluation.
"I went into programming in college because there was a recession and the civil engineering field was not that good. I would tell a resident-of-the-USA woman she should go into engineering, the medical field, sales, or anything OTHER than coding."
