[geeks] Bad monster. No donut.

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Nov 12, 2006, at 3:36 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
> My first wife is a technical writer, and a damned good one with a lot 
> of
> engineering knowledge.  Her job became immensely harder when a lot of
> the positions she had to work with - both other, junior tech writers 
> and
> engineers working on the product - were offshored to India.  One of the
> major reasons it became so much harder was because she would say "This
> needs to be changed" or "I need more information on what's happening
> here", and would get ignored ... because the people in India who needed
> to act on that had traditionally Indian mores, and felt it was beneath
> them to do anything at the request of a woman.  So they'd refuse to do
>

In the future do what Dell's tech support does-make up a phony name.  
Except in her case, she should change her email address so that it will 
sound very manly - something that sounds like "Zapp Branigan" might be 
good.  Maybe "Zack" instead in the event that someone tries to google 
her.

--Patrick