This IT pilot fish is an Army contractor who has been sent to the Netherlands to upgrade an application system — and then teach sysadmins about it.

“I had about 25 students for the two-week class, some of whom were locals on the army base there in Rotterdam,” says fish. “The Dutch students — all men — were very misogynistic and felt a woman could not teach them anything, and as a result were very rude to me, a female instructor.”

By the second week of the class, fish has finally had enough of the heckling. She stops the instructional part of the class long enough to tell the hecklers that if they can’t keep quiet and let the rest of the class learn, they’re welcome to leave.

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