Would you be offended

Its not about men not listening to women. Its the technicians ego or something. I am man and I also had many arguments with technicians and repairman. They simply don't want to accept that we are right. The technicians think that, the reason we called them is because we don't know the product. They think we just trying to act clever in front of them. When my computer was new and had warranty there was some problem with the CD drive. A so called technican came to my house. First instead of pulling out the plug straight, he was shaking the plug right and left in order to removeit. When I told him, this could cause the pin to break. His response was "only old pins break". After attaching a new CD drive he went to Add and Remove programs and started to uninstall PowerDVD. I asked why he was doing that. He did not give me a reply. Then he took one of his own CD and installed PowerDVD from that CD. Then he told me that, he had installed a new version of PowerDVD. I cheked the version he had installed. It was version 6, whereas the one I had installed was version 7. However clever people will listen to you, and work with you. They would even like it explain what was wrong and to fix them. Next time try talking in technical terms, using jargon etc with them and give them a good reason about why you did not want to fix it yourself.

Wow, well thats not cool. I think I have to agree.. you are in a male-dominated field. Honestly, I think even if you were a man that the people still wouldnt have listened to you. I know I dont know the person(s), but it just sounds like their realy stuborn and didnt want to admit to being wrong. Just think for a second, about a male being a secratary. Im sure they exist, but off the top of my head I have not seen one. Do you think that people would take a male secratary seriously? The answer is probably not. I hope I didnt offend you at all, Im sure you are very good at what you do and all but thats just what Im thinking might be the problem. Cheers, and good look in the future!

Lol, my situation was kind of the opposite. I have this female friend who thinks she's a computer idiot, and who thinks I'm a computer expert. Everytime she ran into a computer problem, she would contact me. Some of those were really quite serious e.g retrieving data from reformatted computer, computer crashed and couldn't start, but she also used to contact me everytime she needed to make changes to her blog. I know for a fact that she's quite intelligent and I tried telling her that it was her "I'm a computer idiot" mentality that was sabotaging her attempts, not her inabilty to handle computer stuff. She didn't believe me though. One day, she switched her blog host from Blogger to Wordpress and she called me for help (think it was something about widgets). I told her I was outside and would only be able to get online a few hours later. When I came home, she had managed to figure out her problem. Since then, she's been handling all her blog stuff by herself. She still thinks she's a computer idiot though.

for me, it's natural if men don't agree with you. electricity is something that women do not usually do. and men and women are not created in this world to agree on all the things that will happen. remember, you cannot please all of the people even if you do a good thing.

This happens because of misplaced male pride. Remember the Bible says "Pride comes before a fall." How many men will not heed their wives warnings. Why do you think us women pray.LOL I worked for a large corporation when they first installed hard wired computers. This was before the PC came to be in the late 1970s. We had the programmers in one building, the hard wire system ran to our basement in our building (another group of people); and, of course, there were the phone lines and electrical lines. Every time I would try to do something on the computer there would be a crash. Our office was one of the experimental first ones to use such a system. I would get on the phone and first call the programmer, he would refer me to the guys in the basement in our building, they would then blame it on the phone lines, the phone company then blamed it on the electrical wiring. Day after day, week after week this went on. My boss came out of his office one day and ordered the problem to be fixed. I asked if he cared how I handled it. He said he just wanted it fixed and he did not care how it was accomplished. This is what I did. I separately called each party to come up and look at my computer. I set the same time for each person to show up. I did not tell them that I called the other people. Can you imagine the surprise when they all saw each other in the same room. Since I was the woman and they thought they could just use the blame game to get out of fixing the mess, I thought I would just let them duke it out themselves. Within an hour the problem was solved and when I called for help in the future, they all responded very well. LOL! The frustration comes when you expect intelligent results from.....

Yes I too would be offended. I can't believe he said that to you. Maybe this is the case now, men not listening to women in electricity, but thank God there are women out there like you that will one day prove this statement wrong. I have a degree in computer programming and have came across situations where I felt I was not being listened to because I was a woman. One time when I was working in Tech Support a female caller told me to put her back in the call queue because she wanted to talk to a man not a woman. Also when I was a tutor in college, some of the girls would request male only tutors in math and programming.

That was his male ego talking and he's probably right. Even with all the advances that women have made in this country and all of our accomplishments, we're still viewed as "the little woman" by some. I can't tell you how many times I've had to get tough with a man in order to be heard when another man would have been listened to without question. I'm glad you prevailed and I hope your boss appreciates your skill.

I met almost the same problem. They keep asking me to change the mother board and reloaoding the softwares, and probably to be followed by change of some more hardwares, etc. But I insisted no. Then some guy come and did some programing or whatever, it worked ok. But still my computer ran down from time to time. This time, they told me logging in international websites is difficult these days, maybe due to capability on the other side. Mylot is becoming a luxury for me because of the computer. What to do?

That is our society, our culture. We are sexist most of us. We couldn't believe our female counterpart has such ability to figure things out so intelligently. We have to admit, we are wrong. We are too shame to losing face to a female counterpart. We are not brave enough to face this ultimate truth.