<html> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple = style='WORD-WRAP: break-word; khtml-nbsp-mode: space;khtml-line-break: after-white-space'> <div class=Section1> Barb, = <div> You got = it, girl!  I have been told, on a few occasions, that I was called = because I am a woman.  But those times are few and far between....they = don’t pay the mortgage, that’s for sure.  I have encountered many = more incidents where I was asked if a man could be sent out.  And when I = was building my business, other techs in the area told me they tried to = refer clients to me and often when they heard a woman’s name, they asked if they = could have the name of a man.  (These people did not know me and had = never heard my name before.)   So, while = in a few cases we might actually get a break....it isn’t the usual reason = we get business.  A woman who is successful in this business doesn’t = get that way because she has been favored over men.  All of us have = paid our dues like anyone else and worked hard to get where we are.  =   Don’t worry, guys...sexism is still rampant.  I’m sure most of you will = have plenty of work, as long as you do a good job and as long as pianos are = out there.  Women in the business are not going to be taking work away = from you.   jeannie    Jeannie Grassi, RPT <a = href="mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net">mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net</a>= </div>   <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center = style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'> <hr size=3 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From:</spa= n> caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Barbara Richmond Sent: Friday, January 20, = 2006 9:26 AM To: College and = University Technicians Subject: Re: [CAUT] = disability insurance </div>   <div> You guys are so = funny.  It's true that during my career I have had some customers say they were glad = to find a female piano tech,  mostly in response to a couple techs in the = area that over-stayed their welcome by talking too much or even made, uh, = unwelcome advances.  I believe most referrals came to me because folks were = pleased with my work.  But, just so you know, early in my career, I was = often mistaken for the piano tuner's secretary and one time, when the customer realized that I (the female) was indeed the piano tuner, she said, = "Well, I'd rather have a man!"   </div> <div>   </div> <div> ;-) </div> <div>   </div> <div> Barbara Richmond, strange, = but female </div> <div>   </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid black = 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 3.0pt; margin-left:3.0pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'>= <div> ----- Original Message = ----- </div> <div style='font-color:black'> From:</span= > <a href="mailto:jim_busby@byu.edu" title="jim_busby@byu.edu">Jim = Busby</a> </div> <div> To:<= /font> <a href="mailto:caut@ptg.org" title="caut@ptg.org">College and = University Technicians</a> </div> <div> Sent:</span= > Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:43 PM </div> <div> Subject:</s= pan> RE: [CAUT] disability insurance </div> <div>   </div> Jeff,</fon= t>  </fo= nt> Hummmmm…. Decisions, decisions…  </fo= nt> Cheers</fo= nt>  jim<= /font> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center = style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabIndex=-1> </div> From:</spa= n> <a href="mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org">caut-bounces@ptg.org</a> [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On = Behalf Of Jeff Olson Sent: Thursday, January = 19, 2006 4:33 PM To: College and = University Technicians Subject: Re: [CAUT] = disability insurance </div>   <div> Jim: </div> <div>   </div> <div> "On a different note, Dan Levitan says that many = people in NY are preferring women piano technicians over men because they don’t = want some strange man in their house. That may indicate the need for more = women technicians. It could also mean that men techs need to be less = “strange”.   :- )" </div> <div>   </div> <div> So that means I = either have to have a sex "reassignment" operation or a = strangectomy.  Great.  I have no idea which one would be the more expensive or = arduous. </div> <div>   </div> <div> :-(  = JeffO </div>  </fo= nt> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid black = 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'= > <div>   </div> </blockquote> </blockquote> </div> </body> </html>