Sunday, May 4, 2014

I was so afraid of being know

to know as the first person to find the bug in the PCI bus in 1995, on my first week on the job (3rd day actually), that I took a sick day on the day of being introduced by the Technical Principle of Texas Instruments, who was also the Head of the IEEE802.3, in it's meeting in Houston.

I knew I would be targeted if people knew I was that good at my job.  As a woman in the Tech field, I would be an easy target.  Well, I was a target nevertheless as my coworkers knew, and I was targeted relentlessly, even though I was in the lab all the time, and people working around that lab knew me better.

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