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Dom
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25th Mar 13 at 20:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
This story has been pedalling for the last few days but it'd be interesting to hear the views of CS....

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At least it appears that’s what happened with PyCon this week when a sexual joke led to some very public firings, a virulent debate about women in technology, another virulent debate about public shaming, and now, a DDOS attack.


http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/a-dongle-joke-that-spiraled-way-out-of-control/

In summary - a female (Adria Richards) didn't like a joke she overheard from two guys, created a ruckus on twitter which resulted in not only one of the guys losing their job but also her own after her employer was threatened by Anonymous (those pesky kids that create havoc on the internet).


This was completely blown out of propositions but i personally believe she is ultimately at blame due to the way she handled the situation. If she contacted PyCon staff directly then i suspect the two guys would have been asked to stop and/or apologise or to leave and i believe it would have ended there.
However, she decided to stick it up on twitter which just reeks of attention and reaction seeking to me

Apparently she has also been involved in similar situations - https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/

[Edited on 25-03-2013 by Dom]
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She's an idiot.
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Sounds like the whinging cow deserved it
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Always the same type of person, she'll be a complete twat in general.
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Maybe if she had been in the kitchen making drinks she wouldn't have heard it.
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There's also talk of her potentially being able to take her ex-employer to court over unfair dismissal
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What a complete twat
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people need to lighten up and accept that a joke is a joke .

why in this day an age people need to bitch about something that is said in a lighthearted manor and is meant to be funny ill never know.

glad she lost her job the miserable sod, shame for the bloke to be sacked though.
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Lets just kill anyone with a twitter account that tweets more than 3 times a day. I think 3 times is about right.
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she shouldn't have been a nosey bitch listening to other peoples conversations, wasn't aimed or about her so should keep her nose out

[Edited on 25-03-2013 by Firestate88]
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Shock horror a women mouthing off in a workplace environment. Most women's attitudes stink in a place of work. Especially offices and especially towards men.
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What was the actual joke?
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I was struggling to see it too
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"big dongles" and "forking someone's repo" wasnt it?
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fuck me you're right!! in absolute tears here
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Maybe if she had been in the kitchen making drinks she wouldn't have heard it.


and doing the washing up, those dishes don't wash themselves you know
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The whole thing is a farce. I think the Techcrunch journalist pretty much sums up my thoughts on the matter. Nobody is looking good in this.

The woman, Adria, definitely shouldn't have been publicly shaming anybody. If she felt offended by the joke she could have adressed the matter directly or made a public statement that didn't point fingers.

Playhaven should take better care of their employees and not fire anybody over such insignificant matters. It's the internet ffs, everything will be forgotten in a week.
Though we can't know if the guy was generally a fuck-up and had received prior warnings.

Anonymous are a bunch of fucking tossers who bully people in to acting according to their beliefs and they need to go to jail.
Like us, they have no way of knowing whether the fired employer had received prior warnings.

The firing of Adria seems the only reasonable action. For somebody in her position she majorly fucked up and has obviously lost all of her integrity.

[Edited on 26-03-2013 by Balling]
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"big dongles" and "forking someone's repo" wasnt it?


To be fair, if that's a joke, they deserve to lose their jobs, it's not even funny.
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^

what would of happened if it was 2 women over heard by a man, probably nothing
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Not understanding the joke |= joke not being funny.
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Ok, so jokes about big dongles are funny? Ok John.
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What was the actual joke?


Along the lines of stuffing a big dongle into a socket. She apparently also took offense to them talking about 'forking repos' which is a little ironic considering it's a technical term and i suspect with her being a developer she's forked repos in the past (no innuendo intended)
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Originally posted by John
Not understanding the joke |= joke not being funny.

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Originally posted by Steve
Shock horror a women mouthing off in a workplace environment. Most women's attitudes stink in a place of work. Especially offices and especially towards men.


Agreed, international womens day ffs and here they have little commnuities and such like called 'aspire' where women can get together to help eachother get on in the workplace or take advantages of opportunites men don't have.

Isn't that the opposite of wanting equal rights.

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