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F!)@# IT Work

F!)@# IT work and the men in it and outside of it who made our lives hell.

Two women who have spent their careers in tech, finally saying the quiet part out loud. Audio only. No filter. Occasional advice.

E Explicit. Obviously.

## Latest episode

Trailer

Coming soon.

The first drop is a short trailer: who we are, why we're doing this, and what you're in for.

## About the show

F!)@# IT Work is what happens when two women who've spent decades in IT stop being polite about it. The bad managers. The meetings about meetings. The guy who re-explained your own architecture back to you. The ones outside of work who weren't any better.

It's also about the good stuff: the work we actually love, the careers we built anyway, and the few women who actually had our backs. Few, because plenty of the others were happy to hold the knife. Expect anger, laughter, real technical talk, and advice we wish someone had given us.

  • 01 War stories from the help desk to the server room
  • 02 Career advice nobody puts in the onboarding doc
  • 03 Actual tech talk, from people who do the work
  • 04 The men who made it hell, and how we outlasted them
  • 05 The rare women who had our backs, and the ones who stabbed them

## Hosts

Elizabeth

Elizabeth

// 25 years in software. Engineer, tech lead, engineering director. Done tolerating it.

Elizabeth has been writing and shipping software since 2000. She spent seven years at NYISO keeping the applications that run New York's power grid online, consulted at GE Global Research, climbed from senior developer to lead development manager over seven years at TIAA, and ran engineering as a director at Phreesia. Today she is Head of Product and Design at Signal30, building FireOps1 for the fire service. Along the way she taught computer science at The College of Saint Rose and RPI. She has outlasted every man who told her she was too much for the room.

Christa

Christa

// Health IT. Project coordinator. Trainer. Also done tolerating it.

Christa runs day-to-day IT operations for New York State of Health's small business marketplace. Before that she spent years as a trainer and business analyst, teaching statewide systems to county offices and medical professionals, two hundred people at a time. She has explained software to rooms full of experts and sat in rooms where men explained her own system back to her. She remembers every one of them.

## Contact

Got a story? A question? A guy you'd like us to describe in detail without naming? hello@f-it.work

Names in listener stories are changed. Behavior is not.