Women in engineering and technology: How to deal with problems at your workplace

Alice, the fictitious female engineer constantly in an irritable state by virtue of being surrounded by incompetent, yet highly rewarded, men around her, has an amazing coping mechanism: Fist of Death!

We highly recommend all females working in technology fields learn this technique by meditating upon Alice for precisely 3.1415 mins before going to bed every night.

Most of us witness live demonstrations of daft behavior by colleagues on an everyday basis: their inability to understand that when we speak we’d like them to listen to what we say instead of focusing on our upper torsos; their eagerness to append the “emotional female” tag to us in order to discredit us; their inability to understand that just because we are female doesn’t mean we can’t hack etc etc etc.

On such occasions, the “fist of death” (acquired through aforementioned meditations) will come in handy to punch someone’s head into his shirt sleeves. For some mysterious reasons it is deemed unacceptable to practice this technique overtly by the unimaginative HR departments. Nevertheless, we shall rebel and covertly train the troops to launch the ‘Fist of Death’ offensive to quell imbecility. After all, who’s going to go squeal that he got beat up by a girl in the parking lot?

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