Here is what led up to the event. I am an engineer. The company I work for yearly shows its products in a exhibition hosted in Las Vegas. It was about one month before the "big show" as everybody puts it.
My boss held a special meeting.
"As you all know, the show is in less than a month. I do not want anybody making any changes to any of the products. Doing so will just slow things down, and we need everything working in tip-top shape for the big show."
"If ANYBODY asks you to make a change - DO NOT DO IT. Come to me, and tell me immediately. There will be no product changes from this point on. Let me know if somebody asks you to make a product change, I will deal with it."
I was involved in three projects. One of them - my coworker was a woman named "N". I had finalized the build for the project I was working on with "N". I went to her cube to tell her about my final build.
"Oh, you need to change a bunch of stuff - that build you just did is not valid. A bunch of stuff has changed since then. You'll have to re-build it".
I was upset, "Who ordered that change?"
"Look, its no big deal, if you cannot handle it - I'll do it", she said.
"I can handle it, but the boss said there were to be no more changes - I need to inform him about who requested these changes and tell him - just like he ordered" I said.
She was angry now, "Why don't you just let me do it, since this is obviously way too much for you to handle!". She was yelling.
I left her cube. I started to think that maybe SHE was the one that made all the changes to the product - or at least, was covering up for who did, since she never told me who made or requested the changes.
She came by my cube a few moments later, "I am sorry for yelling at you".
"No worries - it is rush time, we're all under stress to get this done. I just wish you would tell me who made the changes, or at least tell the boss who made the changes" I said.
She started yelling all over again.
I threw my hands up as if to say - Don't Wanna Hear It. I turned around and went back to work ignoring her outburst.
After the big-show, I had a slew of packages that I had to build. 41 packages total. I got them on a Thursday morning - and it took 30 minutes to build each one. This means it would take me 20 and 1/2 hours to build them all - Thursday and Friday - there are only 8 hours in a work-day - this meant that I would be at work late the next two days.
Somebody from the Product Assurance department was bringing in a crew of people on the weekend to test all 41 packages. I had to have them built by Saturday morning.
I got an E-mail from "N" on Thursday morning. She was having problems with a certain aspect of the code - a section that I had recently reverse engineered. I had every intention of helping her - but - as recently mentioned, I was busy.
My reply was kind (this is actual CUT-AND-PASTE with some words removed - to prevent people from knowing too much about where I work):
I never actually implemented the STOP function for the that.
Getting that to work will actually be tricky (which is why I never actually did it).
When I get a chance (beginning of next week) - I will look at it and try to remember what would have been involved in adding the STOP functionality.
Thank You
-Richard
P.S. - If you happen to figure it out in the meantime (or somebody else does) Please let me know - and maybe send me what was done to it. Thanks
She was having the same problem I was having with the code - except, she was being forced to do it now. I was busy until the beginning of next week.
She took the above E-mail WAY out of context, and immediately "flew around on her broomstick".
She was in C's cube (C is a man). We all work in cubicles - it is easy to overhear what others are saying. Especially for me - as I have exceptional hearing.
She said, "That is why I am going to go to HR and tell them he has been making advances towards me, and making obscene comments".
C replied, "You're being a bitch".
The whole floor went silent.
N said, "I'M being a bitch??"
C said, "Yeah, you're being a bitch."
The noise on the floor resumed. I overheard the whole conversation. She was going to FALSELY accuse me of "making advances" and "making obscene comments".
Unbelievable. All this for doing what the boss asked me to do.
I went for an early lunch. I went to a neighborhood bar and had several drinks at lunch. I kept thinking, "I'm gonna get fired because of some stupid bitch".
I came back to work, and continued building the packages. Good thing nobody smelled my booze-breath!
That night, Thursday, from 6:00pm until 10:00pm, I reverse engineered the code that she was having problems with, and implemented the "STOP" function.
I E-mailed her the file. And told her about the modifications I made to it. I did not get a reply - not even a "thanks".
The next night, Friday, I was at work from 8:00am until 8:00pm building the remaining packages.
The months that followed were horrific: I was getting called into my boss's office, my supervisor's office, my manager's office, the director's office - all because she was constantly bad-mouthing me to my superiors. I guess she let the "false-sexual-harassment" thing fly out the window with her broom-stick. Instead, she was simply bashing me to my superiors.
Why did I stay so late helping her out with the code she couldn't figure out?
Simple - I did not want to get fired.
The morals of this story:
- Most women - when a confrontation arises - they do not let it go. They execute an evil vindictiveness that knows no bounds. To this day, she still bad-mouths me to my superiors any chance she gets. It was not until about 4 years ago that they started ignoring her.
- Most modern women do not view the law as being a means of protecting others - or having anything to do with justice.
Most modern women view the laws as a means of controlling, manipulating and punishing men - and NOTHING ELSE.
In their minds, laws exist as tools at their disposal. Weapons and ammunition to be used in the fight against men.
Such laws include:
- Domestic Violence Laws.
- Sexual Harassment Laws.
- Rape Shield Laws.
- Violence Against Women Act
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