He ' s going to get a few hundred k pretty quick I bet . <| sep |> I can almost guarantee they are employed through a third party vendor . Which of course means they aren ' t union like we are I ' m assuming you ' re union . I ' m a call center union worker for Verizon and it works as you describe for us as well . <| sep |> oh i know . i was just trynna make a dumb joke . insert ASCII mario <| sep |> Thanks ! It ' s all about how you remedy the inevitable screw ups ! <| sep |> Drug dealer would be much more impressive <| sep |> I didn ' t specifically say that I believed that . I do think there ' s some truth to it though . Women used to be plentiful in CS . Men used to wear skirts EDIT And look at old pictures of males in like the late 19 th Century . Franklin Roosevelt looks like a girl in early pictures . Gender stereotypes change over the years , and they can shape people into fitting these stereotypes via the nature of people being conformant . It ' s not like women are being pushed out of STEM because somebody blatantly said it ' s a boys thing but its stereotyped as such in a more entrenched style , where as a result women trying to stick to gender roles will avoid STEM . It ' s not like a woman doing STEM is looked down upon , but more like seen as more unusual than a man doing it . Some might even be more blatantly sexist about things like it was well . For example , a relative I have criticized an ad that showed the woman chopping trees and the man working at home , like as if that ' s a bad thing .