Can you not

So we’re at this work meeting, right? 22 dudes in the room, 2 gals. Guess which 3 people get hit on. That’s right, the gals, one of them twice.

The especially sucky part of this was that one of two was a woman on our team who we brought into this meeting specifically to be an “expert” on the topic. She had prepped a great set of slides and we’d been doing lots of, basically, confidence-building exercises in rehearsal and seen a lot of improvement in her ability to take charge of the room and respond to tough questions gracefully. But with her underlying confidence issues/imposter syndrome, getting pointlessly hit on at the very start of the meeting (before she even introduced herself) was a needless blow that almost threw her off balance. Thankfully, she pulled it together and delivered a great presentation, but was this a net positive or negative experience for her professional development?

The other gal got an even cruder remark—she claims not to have heard it, which is probably for the better, because I could swear one of the middle-aged men called her “babe” when she was handing out surveys.

I finally bit the bullet and set up an actual static site build thing with Hugo. Let me know if the site still sucks as much as it’s supposed to.