Tech It to Ride (Big Tech Book 2) by Heide Goody & Iain Grant

Author:Heide Goody & Iain Grant [Goody, Heide & Grant, Iain]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pigeon Park Press
Published: 2023-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

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Randolph padded out to the corridor, noticing on the way how heavy the conference room door was for his female arms. It was one of those that stretched from floor to ceiling, which was a fine choice for style, but why on earth did he have to lean against it to open it, making him look feeble?

Around the corner he found a seat. What the hell just happened? he typed.

Holy shit, Derek, Constance replied. What do you want me to start with? The dick weasels who want to deploy ape soldiers into the African Congo? The limited vision of Krish and Martin once the dollar signs appear in their eyes? No, let’s start with you apologising to me about not taking my word for how women are treated in meetings like this. Go on, I’m waiting.

Jesus. Break it down for me. What just happened?

Hey, get over yourself. I don’t have the time or the knowledge to do the whole ‘In the beginning there was the Patriarchy’ thing. You got treated like a woman and you didn’t like it. Boo-fucking-hoo. We need to move on and we need to be a whole lot smarter about how we do it, or Damba and all of the other great apes are screwed.

Hey, I tried! They wouldn’t listen!

Enough! I can tell you how to get a point across, but you need to strap in and pay attention or we’ll be out of time.

Out of time?

Watch out for them slapping each other on the back when you go back in. They’ll be forming a little male clique and you won’t be able to get inside it. You need to sort out that coffee and you need to go round and see how everybody likes it while you top them up. You need to make them like you again.

Seriously?

We’re into damage limitation now. Then, as you’re moving around the room, and everyone’s relaxed and chatty, you need to say something like ‘Hey guys, I have a dumb question’ and someone will smile indulgently and say ‘There’s no such thing as a dumb question’ and then you ask whether they have thought about the growing interest in great apes being assigned personhood, and, ohh, isn’t that a massive risk to an idea like this?

So, I have to grovel for airtime?

Yes, you do. You need to appear non-threatening. They will give you some bullshit answer, but your main task here is to turn Martin’s head. Try saying that his husband, Graham, will not approve. Graham works as a veterinarian, and I can say without a doubt he will have some strong opinions on this. Bring them to the forefront of his mind.

What about Krish?

He will only care about the PR disaster this could bring. The trouble we have there is that rogue militia are not like companies trading on the stock exchange. Nobody’s going to post negative reviews on the internet or arrange a boycott. It’s a covert world and that works in their favour. Mind you, Krish is a yes-man and very much a coward.

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