Surely many female readers will have had the experience dealing with condescending, sexist assistants when shopping for anything vaguely technical (or something which uses electricity and is not, say, an iron or kitchen appliance!)
But, as this story on (The Customer Is) Not Always Right demonstrates, women who work in these shops have to deal with the same crap:
Customer: “Listen, I just need to talk to a computer guy! I did everything right. I put the hard disk in but it still won’t work. Just get a guy to fix it!”
Me: “Well, the most common mistake is when people forget to format the hard disk. I can have that fixed in 5 minutes.”
Customer: “Yeah sure. Get one of the tech GUYS to do it and call me when it’s ready.”
