Hi, my name is not convexer and this is my garbage site. I created this site
because I wanted a place where I could be my full & terrible self without
worrying too hard about making a positive impression.
Topics of interest include personal shit, gender politics, regular politics,
and the modern workplace. I don’t really proofread my posts, so let me know if
I say anything that’s just wrong.
“If I have peed farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
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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.
