OMG LOL oh, you're thinking of "Soap" -- where there's a running joke of the hopelessly clueless bigot Aunt Jessica makes an ass out of herself by using that term.

Not to mention the belligerence. Do you think he drinks excessively?

Sure is a friendly one, isn't he! I bet he has a lot of useful advice on how to jolly along a diverse construction crew!

Useful in that you know to ignore it.

Wow, you really are intent on proving Lewis's Law. Keep digging, son.

When the evaluation of candidates is biased by the kind of bigotry you exhibit, for example, then the best person for the job is not going to be chosen. It will be the young white heterosexual man over people who were actually more qualified and experienced than him. Cheryl Fillekes, for example.

Aaaand Lewis's Law Proved Again!

And this is relevant how? We go to work to work. That's why it's called work.

Oh, so any older woman MUST be more interested in work as a "social activity" or "hobby", MUST have a "family life", MUST have "interest in work/family life balance" and so forth, and this must match the level of "interest in work/family life balance" among the people she works with?

Do you have any idea how bigoted you sound?

Maybe it's the fact that as a nerd's nerd who never had a family she would fit in all too well if she were a man, and actually knows a whole lot more STEM than they do -- that STEM that guys always try to beat girls over the "don't you worry your pretty little" head with.

"She is ugly."

Wow you never hear that about a man evaluating her qualifications for a job!

Are you trying to prove Lewis's Law by any chance?

Reading some of your other posts, I would say your bigotry and abusive personality is pretty ugly.

And with all the social misfits in software development, the minute a highly qualified woman shows up, the most important thing is suddenly "social fit"?

Really?

You must not know many programmers, socially or otherwise, Mr. Fly!

Oh, so you want to compete with coders in undeveloped countries making pennies an hour, Mr. FlyHelicopters!

Enjoy your race to the bottom!

Hey, Fly (can I call you 'Fly'?). What's more disgusting than a pile of dead workers?

The live one at the bottom trying to eat his way to the top.

That would be you, in a "global marketplace" where people are literally worked to death.

A more civilized solution, of course, would be for worker's rights to be respected in all countries such that it were a level playing field.

So you assume that "the people who apply are old, or black, or anything else" are unlikely to be qualified at all, much less be more qualified than a young white man. Nice.

Nice to see you serving up a healthy dose of personal abuse with your bigotry.

Who else do you repeatedly and belligerently call 'idiot'?

Oh, right, the juries who actually enforce these "unenforceable" laws. Hmmm.

Right. Making young men happy, making sure THEY work more efficiently is what it's all about -- and screw every body else.

Is that your point? Gee, I wonder why all the engineers in these places are young white men, when it's just accepted that the environment should be designed around their fragile emotional need to have their egos and sexuality flattered by the hiring of strictly ornamental female staff.

I wonder if that whole idea of the proper role of women at work as "Pretty Secretary Who Makes Men Happy" has anything to do with their exclusion of older female engineers whose education experience and qualifications intimidate both the Young White Men and their Pretty Secretaries?

Just sayin.

"a secretary that's nice to look at, then so be it - the morale of the other employees will rise."

Lewis's Law at work again

You must have meant "the DONGLES of the MALE employees will rise"

There, I fixed it for you.

You're like one of those cartoon characters that has an angry defensive outburst whenever someone disagrees with him, tsotha.

And then gets particularly petulant and childish, screaming and stomping around, when it's pointed out -- how defensive, petulant and childish you're behaving.

Hilarious. Thanks for the lulz, sucker.

"The Best" is the most experienced, mature, knowledgeable and energetic, not the most young, glib, flighty, egotistical and error-prone.

By basing their evaluations on age and gender stereotypes and not accomplishment and skill that are a reliable predictor of future success, they're just setting themselves up for....well, you saw what idiots they made of themselves when Snowden revealed part of the story. "We never helped them Spookers!!!" screamed Google Senior Management. Then Snowden released the fact that, well, actually, the DOD and NSA had paid Google quite a lot of money for some rather compromising contractual work that involved setting up black servers to siphon off data...for...wait for it...No Such Agency! It was hilarious.

Those of us who have worked with spooks would have known better in the first place, but...

Guess they chose wrong. In so many ways. But that's their problem now, isn't it?

Well enough of them certainly act like children. Just read your own petulant comments.