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Lifting The Lid On Computer Filth
IainMH writes "There's a story over at BBC News about how work stations contain nearly 400 times as many microbes than lavatories. Gross. 'A desk is capable of supporting 10 million bacteria and the average office contains 20,961 germs per square inch, according to research. ... By contrast, the average toilet seat contains 49 germs per square inch, the survey showed.'"
Would a tubgirl link be appropriate here?
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Amazingly there are people out there (yes, in IT) that don't follow this basic act of hygiene.
I guess you think IT is above most other occupations. People in IT are that much smarter and more sophistocated than everyone else? Well, the IT field encompasses many different jobs, and filling those jobs are all kinds of people. People running web hosting companies on Unix boxes that do not know what httpd.conf is. The IT field is fast becoming blue collar work, and because of the belief that it is a white collar field we get lots of people crying foul when it comes to outsourcing and falling wages. You have to adapt, and one of the first things to do is to realize that computing is fast becoming a commodity, much like auto repair.