Barbie slides into the cubicle, becomes a computer software engineer

It only took 126 career hops -- the first one being a soulless teen model -- for Barbie to land a job as a computer software engineer. All we know now is that she has a dual monitor setup and a picture of Ken at her cubicle. Oh, and she uses Linux on the world's smallest netbook.

Computer Software Engineer Barbie

[Karate Tortoise Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:38PM]

"Hello, barbie? This is donald, your boss. YOU'RE FIRED"

"Hello, human resources department? This is donald, your boss. YOU'RE ALL FIRED"

[IvanP91 Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:38PM]

@Ducman69 cant argue with that. :)

[erik1080 Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:05AM]

@Paul A Chapel

Apple's Genius Bar.

[iluvms Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:36AM]

@erik1080 Can she play Crysis?

[Eternity Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:25PM]

OMG won't anyone think of the children!?
Being a tech savvy intelligent woman might actually become socially acceptable....

This is madness!

/S

[d3sc3nd3ncy Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:30AM]

@Eternity

Am I a bad person for thinking "Maybe this will inspire attractive women to go into computer fields!"?

[Eternity Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:37AM]

@d3sc3nd3ncy
I'm all for that!

[Streetfights Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:12AM]

@Eternity

Personally, I'm not at all attracted to women in geeky computer/science fields...does that make me a bad person?

[Saad the other one Posted Feb 15th 2010 2:16AM]

@Eternity I guess now girls won't be able to look anywhere without feeling physically inadequate.

[chucky3456 Posted Feb 15th 2010 2:32AM]

@Eternity This is Sparta!

[dystroglycan Posted Feb 15th 2010 2:52AM]

@Streetfights
Agree most of the time, but there are exceptions at UC Berkeley : )

[octoberasian Posted Feb 15th 2010 3:04AM]

@KGB

Up-ranked for that. XD

[h0llytr0n Posted Feb 15th 2010 4:14AM]

@Eternity
Frankly the idea scares me too! far too distracting! and i'm not sure i could handle the competition..

Would like to see her outfit go into production though while i'm still young enough to look hip and happening in it. I love the fact her top has a circuit board lime green print on it. Can't argue with that sort of attention to detail.

[JeanMichel Decombe Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:52PM]

Pack your bags, Kenny boy. Barbie no longer needs you to fix da computer.

[Edobe Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:29PM]

Is that who designed the icons on Bada OS

[Ishboy Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:30PM]

Apparently she reads binary...

[Gamecheater Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:38PM]

@Ishboy

What're you talking about? I thought everyone could read in binary!

Must be just me then....

[Special Agent Steve Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:42PM]

@Ishboy
Lol, excellent point.
Or, in binary
01001100 01101111 01101100 00101100 00100000 01100101 01111000 01100011 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01110000 01101111 01101001 01101110 01110100 00101110 00100000

[Erb Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:52PM]

@Ishboy

01001101 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101110 01100100 01110111 01101001 01100011 01101000 00101110

[Special Agent Steve Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:03AM]

@Erb
01001111 01101110 01101100 01111001 00100000 01101001 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01100110 01101001 01110010 01110011 01110100 00101110 00100000

[sonicyoof Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:10AM]

@Special Agent Steve

Alright guys, if you're going to be speaking in binary, at least link to the generator/converter you're using.

[Eternity Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:10AM]

@Special Agent Steve
ZOMG!11111111111111111111100010101010101100101010110101001010110101001011010101010111011100000111101010110110010100101101011010101101010!!!

[Erb Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:14AM]

@sonicyoof

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=binary+to+ascii+converter

[Special Agent Steve Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:38AM]

@Eternity
That's not divisible by 8. :O

[engadgetcomexcludeengadget Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:39AM]

@Ishboy 010010010010011101100100001000000111010001100001011100000010000001110100011010000110000101110100001011100010111000101110001000000101100101100101011100110010000001001001001000000111001001100101011000010110110001101001011110100110010100100000011100110110100001100101001001110111001100100000011000010110111000100000001110000010000001101001011011100110001101101000001000000111000001101001011001010110001101100101001000000110111101100110001000000111000001101100011000010111001101110100011010010110001100101110

[engadgetcomexcludeengadget Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:48AM]

Why did it cut me off...
01001001 00100111 01100100 00100000 01110100 01100001 01110000 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00101110 00101110 00101110 00100000 01011001 01100101 01110011 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101100 01101001 01111010 01100101 00100000 01110011 01101000 01100101 00100111 01110011 00100000 01100001 01101110 00100000 00111000 00100000 01101001 01101110 01100011 01101000 00100000 01110000 01101001 01100101 01100011 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110000 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 00101110

[NaJaKwa Posted Feb 15th 2010 1:03AM]

@Ishboy
SoH ghotpu ghaj Daq tlhap yIn

[Woaha Posted Feb 15th 2010 2:26AM]

@Woaha

01010011 01101111 00100000 01101100 01101111 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01101110 01101011 01110011 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100110 01101001 01110011 01101000 00101110

[Templarian Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:31PM]

The binary in the background reads "barbie" in ascii.

They should of made this years ago.

[ttsgeb Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:38PM]

... Barbie has had 126 "careers" now... She sure seems good at loosing jobs. . . the question is, with recommendations like that, how the hell does she still get jobs? Coming Soon: Barbie- Homeless Edition...

[Valicore Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:37AM]

@ttsgeb More like "Barbie goes back to her roots with streetwalker Barbie!"

[plyr58 Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:39PM]

Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and need you to come in on Saturday... That would be great.

Oh, and we need to talk about your TPS reports...

[AlienSix Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:43PM]

Is Barbie a Mac or PC. There can only be one haha.

[MikeZ Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:50PM]

@AlienSix But does it support Flash?

[JiMMaR Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:28AM]

@AlienSix that was already mentioned , she uses linux...

[krizoitz Posted Feb 15th 2010 3:47AM]

@JiMMaR I don't see anything that says she is using Linux in the pictures, so, i'm pretty sure they poster just made that up.

[HawtDawg Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:47PM]

And her computer is hooked up to the matrix. Nice.

[glenskey Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:47PM]

unboxing and review, please?

:)

[tamayoduck Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:48PM]

How come Software Engineer Barbie has to wear nerdy glasses? :( Fail.

[Bobdiggitydog Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:51PM]

I think I'm slightly unnerved by the fact that you know how many jobs barbie has had.

[stickboy Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:25AM]

@Bobdiggitydog: It says "126th career" on the box.

[southern78 Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:53PM]

About time! Ken been slaving away all these years...earn dat money biotch..

I keed, I keed!

[Marbles Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:57PM]

Wait a minute. Where are her tattoos?

I call fake.

[gongonzabar Posted Feb 14th 2010 11:59PM]

This is the result of reddit -
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/aobsa/vote_for_barbie_to_be_a_computer_engineer/

God I love the internet!

[Sparky Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:01AM]

She soon will have to get job #128 when her job goes offshore.

[Sparky Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:15AM]

@(Unverified)

#127 is when management tells you that you are being moved to more value added work and the low level work is being transferred offshore. Then to squeeze more out of the offshore contractors they start to do more and more of the value added work, so you are 'allowed to pursue other career alternatives' or have an 'enhanced personal leisure potential'.

(Did not happen to me - happened to others I USED to work with)

[Sparky Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:31AM]

@Phrank

Is your comment related to photo #9?

[Sparky Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:01AM]

iJustine should sue.

[Eternal Density Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:05AM]

Utterly hilarious.
btw, i'm a software engineer myself and my (female non-software engineer) officemate said upon seeing this article, "you should have better dress sense if that's the standard." LOL

[MegaWatts Posted Feb 15th 2010 12:05AM]

what is funny about this, is the fact that there aren't very many women software engineers...at least where I go to school.