Coup de chapeau aux collègues de Quebecor Media qui ont fait le tour de l’histoire dès sa révélation par Acrimed, un site français consacré aux médias. Grâce à eux, on a les versions de Mme Laborde et de Mme Bombardier qui, depuis, se cachent derrière les avocats de Fayard pour ne pas s’expliquer. On ne peut pas dire que les explications données aux journalistes de Quebecor, quand l’affaire a éclaté, soient très convaincantes.
La Presse, Patrick Lagacé : “Mme Denise Bombardier, derrière un bouclier avocassier”.
Patrick Lagacé qui lève son chapeau pour le Mordor Quebecor. Wow, pour un salarié de la Power Corporation, c’est fort !
Mais bon, le confraternel a ses limites. Faire un lien vers le Journal de Québec, tu n’y penses pas. Tiens, je vais mettre une recherche Google à la place…
Cheap ?
Thierry Crouzet (@crouzet) quitte Internet pendant six mois. Il en tire un livre, J’ai débranché (2012). L’Oreille tendue, elle, en tire (notamment) ceci :
J’ai l’habitude d’être le clown de service. Il a suffi qu’un jour je quitte le Midi pour que plus personne ne me prenne au sérieux. Dans les boulangeries parisiennes, les clients s’exclament :
— Le paing !
Quand je parle en public, je provoque l’hilarité. J’ai beau m’attaquer à des sujets difficiles, les auditeurs se bidonnent. Mon accent détruit mes efforts d’abstraction (p. 19).
Les Québécois savent très bien ce qu’il veut dire.
L’oreille tendue : “Convergence transatlantique”.
They tried various other questions, questions from other tests, questions they used for more advanced candidates. Gwen answered as best she could. The men were amazed. To their credit, once they became convinced that she hadn’t faked her results, they knew she would be a great hire. They recommended her for training as a programmer analyst, the most senior position being filled. She completed the training and became one of the first women to program computers in Canada. Gwen would go on to lead a number of large computerization projects in the insurance industry as well as for the City of Toronto.
Today she is retired, and like most retirees, she asks her son to help her with computers. She likes her Mac and runs a small business buying and selling books on line. What does she have to say about the difficulties she faced breaking into a male-dominated industry?
“I had it easy. The computer didn’t care that I was a woman or that I was black. Most women had it much harder.”
Reginald “Raganwald” Braithwaite: “A Woman’s Story”.
IBM. Photo Walter Sanders, Life. 1961.
IBM. Photo Walter Sanders, Life. 1961.
IBM. Photo Robert W. Kelley, Life. 1962.
Blah ? Touitter !