Sterotypes
When where and how, in your experience, have the stereotypes we all hold so dear been:

a) Confirmed

...or...

b) Utterly confounded

..hopefully with hilarious and lol-worthy consequences or outcomes?

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My (nearly) personal best was when a new starter arrived at the software company I worked at once. She was tall, blond glamorous and a sight to behold in a geeky male-dominated workplace. She'd been stashed at the only available spare desk, for we were expanding rapidly, which was next to the departmental secretary. A couple of days later one of the sales team approached her thusly:

"I need these faxing out and can you hang around by the machine 'cos the reply is pretty important - there's a lot of money in this contract?"

She responded "No, sorry I can't - I'm very busy right now".

Salesman is perplexed: "What do you mean, 'No'!?"

She: "I don't do that stuff".

Salesman: "Bloody hell woman! What do you do all day!?"

She: "My job title is 'Software Architect', but I'm really filling a systems analysis role at the moment..."

Salesman: "........"
(apologies_for_length, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 4:09, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

lol
Yay for her - I bet you fancy her too ya swine!?
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 15:43, Reply)

yeahhh
I like this girl. Give her a high five from me :)
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 16 Nov 2008, 6:49, Reply)