Sep. 24th, 2004

*buh-link*

Sep. 24th, 2004 10:49 am
hkellick: Pittsburgh, City of Bridges (Dilbert)
Well.. that was odd. And more than slightly amusing.
Just got off the phone with a requestor. Now, by and large, as many of you know, most engineers seem to be white. There's a pretty even mix, nowadays, of women and men, but white people tend to dominate my industry.
So it was... odd.. to get off the phone with a requestor who spoke perfectly coherently for someone who seemed to sink into occasional ebonics. It was a perfectly normal and intelligent conversation otherwise.
That just made my day :)

EditEdit: Fine. Let me explain again. Clearer for those of you who want to jump towards being offended.
Guy calls up. Doesn't matter from where or what company he represents. He wants to talk about a case I've been working on. We have a five minute conversation about the case in which I go over what I was asking for and what I need from him. Throughout the conversation, especially when I was talking, he'd sort of revert into using slang that I don't hear much (No I won't tell you what, fuck you very much. Wouldn't want to be called any more racist than you already think I am.). It was only the junction of slang and engineese that amused me. For the millionth time, it wasn't because he was black, it was because he was using two different and what I'd consider otherwise incompatible slangs.
It was just one of those "Had To Be There" Moments. Or maybe not. Maybe, I'm just a fucking rascist bastard :p

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