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

]]>Feb 14th 2010 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 14th 2010 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/
Apple's Genius Bar.]]>Feb 15th 2010 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 15th 2010 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Being a tech savvy intelligent woman might actually become socially acceptable....

This is madness!

/S]]>Feb 14th 2010 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/
Am I a bad person for thinking "Maybe this will inspire attractive women to go into computer fields!"?]]>Feb 15th 2010 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/I'm all for that!]]>Feb 15th 2010 12:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/
Personally, I'm not at all attracted to women in geeky computer/science fields...does that make me a bad person?]]>Feb 15th 2010 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 15th 2010 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 15th 2010 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Agree most of the time, but there are exceptions at UC Berkeley : ) ]]>Feb 15th 2010 2:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/
Up-ranked for that. XD]]>Feb 15th 2010 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/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.]]>Feb 15th 2010 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 15th 2010 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 14th 2010 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 14th 2010 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/
What're you talking about? I thought everyone could read in binary!

Must be just me then....]]>Feb 14th 2010 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/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


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01001101 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101110 01100100 01110111 01101001 01100011 01101000 00101110]]>Feb 14th 2010 11:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/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]]>Feb 15th 2010 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/
Alright guys, if you're going to be speaking in binary, at least link to the generator/converter you're using.]]>Feb 15th 2010 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/ZOMG!11111111111111111111100010101010101100101010110101001010110101001011010101010111011100000111101010110110010100101101011010101101010!!!]]>Feb 15th 2010 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=binary+to+ascii+converter]]>Feb 15th 2010 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/That's not divisible by 8. :O]]>Feb 15th 2010 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 15th 2010 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/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]]>Feb 15th 2010 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/SoH ghotpu ghaj Daq tlhap yIn]]>Feb 15th 2010 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/
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]]>Feb 15th 2010 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/
They should of made this years ago.

]]>Feb 14th 2010 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 14th 2010 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 15th 2010 12:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/
Oh, and we need to talk about your TPS reports...]]>Feb 14th 2010 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 14th 2010 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 14th 2010 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 15th 2010 12:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 15th 2010 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 14th 2010 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/
:)
]]>Feb 14th 2010 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 14th 2010 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 14th 2010 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 15th 2010 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/
I keed, I keed!]]>Feb 14th 2010 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/
I call fake.]]>Feb 14th 2010 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/aobsa/vote_for_barbie_to_be_a_computer_engineer/

God I love the internet!]]>Feb 14th 2010 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/
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#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)]]>Feb 15th 2010 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/
Is your comment related to photo #9?]]>Feb 15th 2010 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 15th 2010 12:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/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]]>Feb 15th 2010 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/barbies-slides-into-the-cubical-becomes-a-computer-software-en/Feb 15th 2010 12:05AM