Your comment about "your mother" reminded me of something.
A few years ago, I hired an immensely competent woman. She's older -- I'm guessing early 60s, but I'm not sure. Suffice it to say that her kids are around my age (I'm in my mid-30s), and she is a grandmother. Her husband is a pilot. They met in college, she got her college degree, then they started having kids, and so she was a stay-at-home mom. When her kids got old enough, she went back to school, and got her PhD. She contracted for us for awhile, and I convinced her to take a permanent position.
In her new-hire training, the instructor kept on saying how our company has to do better so that even a grandmother can use our products. She said that she went to the instructor afterwards and told her that it's hard enough being a grandmother at our company without someone telling every new hire on their first day that grandmothers are too dumb to use software.
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A few years ago, I hired an immensely competent woman. She's older -- I'm guessing early 60s, but I'm not sure. Suffice it to say that her kids are around my age (I'm in my mid-30s), and she is a grandmother. Her husband is a pilot. They met in college, she got her college degree, then they started having kids, and so she was a stay-at-home mom. When her kids got old enough, she went back to school, and got her PhD. She contracted for us for awhile, and I convinced her to take a permanent position.
In her new-hire training, the instructor kept on saying how our company has to do better so that even a grandmother can use our products. She said that she went to the instructor afterwards and told her that it's hard enough being a grandmother at our company without someone telling every new hire on their first day that grandmothers are too dumb to use software.