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Are You Annoying?
cweditor writes "This Computerworld article looks at some habits of people in general and IT pros in particular that can drive co-workers crazy."
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Yes.
Next slashdot article please.
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
when I declared that every other Tuesday was pants-optional day. Needless to say, very few ever join me.
One thing IT geeks need to remember is that if a user is bothering us, something in the system is broken. Even if it's the user that's malfunctioning, they're still a part of the system. They can be repaired via retraining and also replaced via human resouce departments.
I answer questions I know the answer to with "what?", then I answer it. Seems to piss lots of people off. =\
Yes.
I mean, its simple. All you have to do is click on use advanced options radio button, and then click the change advanced settings. No, the little circle first, right. Then the advanced button, and select check hosts file and check Internet Explorer preferences, then click on Next and Continue and, grrr. MOOOVE.
The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. -- ee cummings
Dude - you can't karma whore if you post anonymously!
THIS JUST IN: People in the IT sector have the same behavioral traits as all of the rest of the humans on earth. HOLY SHIT!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
I don't mean to be rude, but just how many people clicked that link? This is ComputerWorld here, there are probably a couple hundred readers at any given time. Even if all of them clicked on a link on that site at once, you would expect any reasonably advanced technology to not buckle under the strain.
/. only link to services run on Celerons or what? How the heck many of us clicked that link?
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I think this is the only article in the history of Slashdot that could make GNAA comments, trolling and general bad behaviour -- ON TOPIC!
Annoying people exist everywhere. The trick is to direct their annoying behaviour at your foes.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
It's a beloved tradition.
isn't news supposed to be something we DON'T know?
This line gave me a laugh:
if you have a tendency to blurt things out and interrupt people, tell your listeners they'd be helping you by pointing out every time you do that
Reminds me of this line from Wargames (spoken to Malvin, the stereotypical nerd):
"Remember you told me to tell you when you were acting rudely and insensitively? Remember that? You're doing it right now."
I like country music and beans, so the answer is no!
I think somebody has a case of the mondays.....
I'm a scientist. I know Linux inside and out and have been using it at home and elsewhere for over ten years. Yet, I don't have root access to my *own* Linux PC at work
If you want root access so bad then root the box yourself since you know Linux inside and out.
I had a coworker that I shared a cube with, who would not only sleep during our lunch break (power napping is ghetto) but would talk in his sleep.
And one time I came back from lunch break and he was, I shit you not, singing The Bengals Eternal Flame in SPANISH. WHILE SLEEPING.
God I still have nightmares of that fucking freak.
Es esto que se quema una llama eterna?
...but, I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume between the hours of nine and eleven...
Because he's my boss. And I'm a total pussy, so I take my gripes to Slashdot where they can be totally ineffective.
I'm just trying to fit in.
Don't get discouraged though. First, you can pretend to come out as bisexual to the gang (if you think that it won't get you fired). Whether you really are or not, straight guys get very unsettled talking about anything below the waist with a non-heterosexual in their midst.
Second, point out to your manager or HR-droid that such metrics are highly discriminatory because it immediately insinates that females are the stupidist, lowest, pooerest employees. The fewer numbers of females in your group will mean a higher justification for the charges of "discrimination". Be sure to tell them that you aren't considering any sort of legal action, but you're just describing what could happen the next time a female is passed over for a position or promotion.
Interestingly, when I was in a situation where I worked with guys and saw them naked (in the company lockerroom) the "attitude" that guys projected often did NOT correlate in any way with their actual length. My guess is that in the places where penile length was a metric of intelligence (which it wasn't at the company with the lockerroom) that it's only that way because no one can confirm the metrics. Even if you see your coworker at the next urinal there's always the excuse "Oh, that's just flacid. I'd have to step back a foot or so otherwise."
This is a stupid metric. I think that with some creative talk of discrimination that it can be discarded. But it's just the social nature of humans that "something" will take over to justify an arbitrary social pecking order rather than one based on relevant metrics.
Ok, that sounds fair.
Tell me where you work, and I will come by and tap you on the head with a pencil at irregular intervals throughout the day.
When you get annoyed, I will smugly tell you it is your fault because you "don't understand".
Or, perhaps, annoyance is the fault of the person who is too superior or condescending to bother to help or explain properly.
HTH. HAND.
The only reason I try not to piss people off at work is that I know if I lost my job and live out my dream to poison-gas my high-school reunion, it'll be more work than if I just keep my mouth shut.
Gee, I don't see anything about how annoying cab drivers, waiters, construction workers, football fans, etc, can be. So personally I'm doing s/IT/human/ and fuck the bullshit.
Seriously, this article takes the one group of people who are generally shat on all through their youth and then gets the joy of being blamed for problems due to low budget not lack of foresight and we *still* can't say I told you so, WE'RE annoying? STFU, whores. You'd best believe I can do a lot more than annoy the in-duh-viduals and cow-workers around me. ALL PEOPLE ARE ANNOYING. At least the article bothers to allude to such when they say that "some acts annoy some people and sail right past others"... translation: EVERYONE ANNOYS SOMEONE. Speaking from experience here, if you can't put up with someone who's "annoying", then you're even worse off than they are. The workplace isn't fucking kindergarten. Maybe that person is actively trying to be friendly and for whatever reason, they have different values and strengths than you. I know I'd be annoyed as hell if someone came into my cube and started talking football for half an hour. I still wouldn't tell them to "fuck off", I'd let them know that I wasn't interested. How about this for annoying: people who write articles about IT workers foibles in such a way as to imply that "IT == Geek == Annoying == deserves to lose job". How about this: "Geek == IT worker == I barely have the coping skills to not sever your ugly head and use the blood to paint my bathroom, and you're calling me annoying? Then stay the hell away 'cause I find your pulse and breathing abhorrent". Fuck this article. And fuck all the ex-jocks, ex-cheerleaders, ex-popular assmonkeys who read this and think "Gee, why don't those loser nerds and geeks in IT just act the way I act? I'm perfect (as evidenced by my popularity and physical beauty) so obviously the problem with /those people/ is that nerds and geeks choose to be unliked and so they deserve to be made fun of/ridiculed as annoying/blamed for problem X..."
MOTHER *&@#^(*&@^#*&@ BITCHES!!!! AAAAAGHGHHGHH I HATE STUPID PEOPLE (yet somehow I manage to live with them. Imagine that)
"A witty saying proves nothing." ~Voltaire
"d'Oh!" ~Homer
Technical talk is what annoys management. Since they can't be expected to learn, we have to dumb it down. Because we're annoying.
"Screw causalilty!" -- Prof. Farnsworth
Maybe his cubicle's a stall in the 3rd floor bathroom. IT jobs just don't have as many perks as they did before the bubble burst, you know. If your job stinks, there's not much you can do about it. Outsourcing's possibly to blame for the lack of jobs. Let's get our workforce out of the bathrooms and into the real world. Fight outsourcing with tooth and nail.
My problem with Windows is what people DO know how to do with it remotely.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
> And you could never send him an email without getting it back, grammer corrected. What a prick.
That's *grammar* not grammer! Can you follow this??
Love,
Steve
Hi, I'm #3, and I think my farts ARE funny. You IT people have no sense of humor...
No room here though, so read it here.
** Heller