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Calling All Female Valve Engineers

Posted January 23, 2010 8:00 AM

For female engineers only… How do you like working as a valve engineer? Did you always want to be a valve engineer or did you just "wind up" there? Tell us about your experiences working with valves. Does it offer enough challenge? What about the possibility for career advancement? Is it just a job or would you make it a career?

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Re: Calling All Female Valve Engineers

01/23/2010 12:06 PM

What is with the valve engineer obsession here?

Does someone need a valve of some sort redesigned repaired or replaced but cant bring them selves to just ask the question?

If you have a bad valve or need a specific type of valve just ask and describe what it is that you need!

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Re: Calling All Female Valve Engineers

01/23/2010 8:43 PM

I am wondering what is the difference between a female valve and a male valve- and why does a female valve require a specialized engineer?

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Re: Calling All Female Valve Engineers

01/23/2010 11:25 PM

GA. Good chuckle on a dull Sunday morning.

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Re: Calling All Female Valve Engineers

01/24/2010 3:41 AM

since when does Globalspec support/allow sexist posts. Had this said "male engineers only" then I am sure that it would not have been allowed.

What does it matter if the engineer is male or female?

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Re: Calling All Female Valve Engineers

01/25/2010 9:48 PM

Guest ponders: "What does it matter if the engineer is male or female?"

<sexist_male_post>Female engineers who design valves of any kind are nearly always better looking than male engineers who design same. You'd have to be a bivalve not to notice this.</sexist_male_post>

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Re: Calling All Female Valve Engineers

01/24/2010 8:12 AM

Engineers who work on female valves, or female engineers who work on valves? either way, prostate valves appear to be not in consideration.

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Re: Calling All Female Valve Engineers

01/24/2010 10:26 AM

Would this be a fluid valve or a British vacuum tube?

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Re: Calling All Female Valve Engineers

01/24/2010 6:20 PM

Maybe some lonely male valve reporter is just cruising?

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Re: Calling All Female Valve Engineers

01/25/2010 9:09 AM

maybe female valve refers to the type of valve? like male and female fittings? but how complicated can a valve be? Is there really an engineer concentrating on this?

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01/25/2010 10:17 AM

The bivalves believe that Charles Darwin engineered them.

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