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Ginny Mae 🩵
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i post for attention and affection (it's a youngest child thing): memes, tech rambles, newly acquired domain names, and short irreverent nonsense i think is funny. ymmv.

seattle based. single parent. self-unemployed after >20 years in big tech

created 1st mastodon account: 2022-12-22
found out i was a girl: 2022-12-22
(former was causal to the latter)

i don’t use ai in my writing because it capitalizes words, and also because writing is the fun part for me (you do you!)

ask me about my banger domain names!

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For a while I was mentally drafting my work goodbye letter and the most polite draft was this:

“I’ll be back when the billionaire class realizes they can’t replace us with AI no matter how much they juice their internal metrics. It will be more expensive because y’all’s shit will be burning to the ground and I deserve hazard pay for dealing with the toxic garbage you are deluding yourself as progress 😂”

I convinced myself this year I’m incapable and incompetent. I thought I was literally just… permanently broken. Something fundamental about me had stopped functioning. I can’t express in words how complete a failure I felt, and that it was my fault completely for being broken.

This week has been a lot of vindication. My org still hasn’t listened to me whatsoever but have fucked up all other options and are slowly realizing everything I said was fucking right.

It’s a group of men so they won’t ever admit that though and it’ll be my fault for not convincing them.

But hell, men gonna men amirite

For the decade of time I lead software projects (management and/or team lead) my low water mark was 3 women on my team of 6-7 folks. My current org has 3 women on a team of nearly 30. I’ve had staff come to my team, hell to my COMPANY, to work on my teams.

I was not asked or consulted about my replacement I just showed up to at 8:30 am meeting my first day back, that lasted 10 minutes. “there have been some changes”