• Abnorc@lemm.ee
      42·
      12 days ago

      Go forth and forge your own destiny, free of stereotypes. Or just be Alex from YIIK idk.

    • Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      22·
      12 days ago

      Every IT woman I’ve worked with kicks ass and is really cool, doesn’t realize how cool and inspiring they are. Until management, then I have no idea how they got there, they can’t seem to use a computer let alone assist with IT related decision making.

    • wreel@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      7·
      12 days ago

      Unicorn… Nah, I’m kidding fortunately for women there’s no strong stereotypes. There were enough women in my gigs that the individuality was easily apparent.

      Since that’s isn’t really fun I’ll pull some very broad strokes descriptions out my rear end and see which one resonates with you.

      The Professional Mom: 8-4:30 on the dot but maximum effort during working hours and never ever seen goofing off or chit chatting (lunch included). Pretty chill though and smart as hell.

      The boardgame/crossword girl: most likely to be gender fluid. Don’t ever mistake her for “gamer girl”. Will happily shoot the shit with you and goof off if you treat her like human being. Will probably have real experiences of getting work/credit stolen by tech bros.

      The optimistic young coder: super jazzed about being the in the field and learning everything about anything. A people pleaser to a fault. Give it two to three years before she’s completely jaded. Until then, an absolute sponge of knowledge.

      The cut throat career track woman: absolutely obsessed with advancing her status. Tech bros learn brutality from these ladies. Usually transition to pure management or product divisions pretty early. Also most likely to organize the “women in tech” meetings for clout in the current company. Stay on their good side for your sake.

    • EvilMe@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 days ago

      All I can think of is Lisbeth slander from the millennium series. That’s pretty kickass.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      11 days ago

      yeah, the answer is none, because im pretty sure 80-90% of the field is men still :(

      (this is a stereotype meme, so it fits, don’t @ me)

        • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          idk what the actual stats are, mostly cuz i don’t really care, and it also depends on where you look, obviously. But i was mostly going off of anecotal experience, and uh, it’s definitely not looking great. But then again a lot of younger women are going to stem fields, more so than IT and admin stuff. Management as well, i might have to look into some actual statistics one of these days to see what’s actually going on lmao.

          but it’s definitely one of the things of all time in the CS space right now. It’s still very male centric, for some reason.

          • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
            2·
            10 days ago

            My major on college started off with 12 women in my class. At graduation, there were only 3 of us. Dealing with the sexism made most of the women drop out and go into something different. I stuck with it because I wanted to be successful in it out of spite. I see a lot of my former classmates working local retail jobs because they can’t get anything in this field. Honestly feels good to be more successful than the men who looked down on me lol.

            • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              10 days ago

              yeah i can imagine, probably also depends on where you live, and go to school at. For me it was easily 90+ % men. I don’t know if there was any overt sexism in the education space (workspace i can imagine there is, but that’s just how it is unfortunately), but it’s definitely a little imposing walking into a room full of primarily men/women as the other gender and just trying to be normal lol.

              I think a lot of the problem, at least historically, is that women just weren’t as educated on technology as men, both throughout childhood and education. That’s changed over time now, thankfully, but i wonder if it’s more influenced by women focusing on more highly educated fields, and men moving out of those fields, and into things like CS that are still educated, but not as much as something like, micro biology, for example.

              Personally as a linux user myself, i’m just happy seeing people learn about the technology they use, and learning to utilize it more effectively, possibly even learning how to create it lol. It’s an indispensably useful skill to have. Especially with how “stupid proof” modern operating systems like IOS can be. I would like to see more women in the field, but unfortunately i’m not familiar enough with it to make any significant prognosis here. Other than “you should try to self educate in your free time where possible” it might make life more interesting, you never know.

    • harmsy@lemmy.world
      31·
      12 days ago

      Starts out as top left, starts taking care of himself and going to the gym, reaches top right and keeps going until getting to bottom left. Meanwhile the bottom right picture gets skinnier over time.

  • Siethron@lemmy.world
    351·
    12 days ago

    Doesn’t have the guy who seems to always be asleep at the desk but is also somehow the most efficient IT worker.

      • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
        9·
        12 days ago

        If IT is doing everything right then most of the time there won’t be much for them to do. I’d much rather they spent most of their time waiting for incident tickets than constantly putting out fires.

      • meliaesc@lemmy.world
        3·
        12 days ago

        I generally sleep during the day, skips the useless meetings. Then I go to the office around 8pm and crank out profit for my corporate overlords. They (mostly) understand it’s better for them this way, and I meet all the expectations of office attendance and social gatherings.

    • kosanovskiy@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 days ago

      Ikr. Where are the near retired 50 year old who are stagnating the tech just to avoid getting fired and the 2 overworked employees who are the smes in everything for the department.

  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
    31·
    12 days ago

    What’s the stereotype with top right?

    Asking because if I had to lump myself somewhere, it’s that one.

    But if it sucks… I guess I’ll go wear a sailor uniform.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    281·
    12 days ago

    We have two IT guys, one of them is three of these and the other is the fourth. The guy who is all three is actually the anime girl on VR Chat in his spare time :)

  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    11 days ago

    Got a coworker on my team who is type 4. He’s the glue that holds the team together, nobody knows anywhere as much as he does.

    If he ever leaves, the whole team is screwed and the project is dead in the water.

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
    141·
    10 days ago

    Somehow it’s missing the clean cut Indian developer guy, the emo developer, the script kiddie, the Linux fan, the windows fan, the IBM frat boy, the open BSD lunatics and the one guy who loves trains too much

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
      4·
      10 days ago

      Indian guy - top right

      Emo developer - top left

      Script kiddy - top left

      Linux fan - top left

      Windows fan - top left

      Ibm frat boy - top right

      Open BSD lunatics - bottom left

      Guy who loves trains too much - bottom right

  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    141·
    12 days ago

    … it’s mostly the top left.

    Source: i resemble the top left (although i still have my hairline)