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Guy or a Girl

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One interesting aspect of working in Internationally distributed team is that sometime it gets difficult to make common judgements. E.g. when we see a name we inherently figure out whether it's a male or female name and refer to that person as such in email. The issue is that I cannot always make the same judgement in case of names from another country/culture.

In my previous team in a long email thread someone continually referred to Khushboo as "he". Khushboo didn't correct him and it went on for some time until I pointed out that to him in a separate email. Today I was typing an email to someone and suddenly figured out I had no idea whether one of the person I'm referring to is male or female. I took a wild guess and I'm waiting to get corrected.

Published Friday, June 27, 2008 9:42 AM by abhinaba
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# re: Guy or a Girl

Friday, June 27, 2008 3:26 AM by phunny

its really simple.. the answer is 42

# re: Guy or a Girl

Monday, June 30, 2008 12:20 AM by Anu

You can probably look up "Members of" in Outlook and see if some women specific alias turns up like "Women in STB" or "IDC-Women" etc. I've noticed women get added to these aliases usually without them having to sign up.

Obviously, the same problem there too - it took the owners of the alias around an year to figure out "Anutthara" is a woman's name before I was added to one of those aliases! :)

BTW, awfully cute pic of Prokriti.

# re: Guy or a Girl

Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:58 AM by Kalpesh

Just being funny here.

If you can call up the person, do that ;)

Your doubts will be cleared up.

# re: Guy or a Girl

Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:04 AM by abhinaba

Call up? So you suggest me calling waiting up (time-zone issues) and calling folks in US/Europe just to say "er..."

# re: Guy or a Girl

Saturday, July 05, 2008 4:33 PM by Kalpesh

Its surprising (not to talk), when people work in a distributed environment (even though people are timezones away).

I don't suggest anything. Do it at your own risk :)

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