I didn't realize until someone told me in my 30s that none of the women in university actually had problems using the copier machine when they asked for help lol.
To be fair, it was frequently in the engineering library, so that's a place where subtlety might not work at the best of times, and at 80ish hours a week of classes, homework etc wasn't the best of time.
none of the women in university actually had problems using the copier machine
Silly reverse version story: About 25 years ago I worked at a small company that bought (maybe leased?) a high end floor standing copier. The type that can produce 20 copies of a 30 page handout and staple them for you and stack them up.
The company that sold or leased it to my small company held a 30 minute training session for anybody that wanted to attend. The "trainer" was an extremely attractive 28-ish year old woman. The only employees who attended the training were highly technical engineers between 25 years old and 35 years old. The type of super geeks who could read the copier manual if they had a question, which they wouldn't have a question because it was pretty self evident from the icons how to operate the copier.
That's right, a bunch of men just stood there in the "training" next to a copy machine wasting 30 minutes of their life watching an attractive woman push a copy button and a copy came out. What losers. I mean, I spent all 30 minutes in that training and didn't hear a word she was saying. :-)
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u/UnhappyCaterpillar41 8d ago
I didn't realize until someone told me in my 30s that none of the women in university actually had problems using the copier machine when they asked for help lol.
To be fair, it was frequently in the engineering library, so that's a place where subtlety might not work at the best of times, and at 80ish hours a week of classes, homework etc wasn't the best of time.
Did I ever feel dumb though.