Dirty Duty On the Front Lines of IT

snydeq writes "Jobs may be scarce in today's economy, but there's no shortage of nasty IT work — as the third annual installment of InfoWorld's Dirty IT Jobs series demonstrates. From the payroll cop to the coolant jockey to the network sherpa who has to squeeze into rodent-filled spaces and deal with penny-pinching clients, these seven jobs provide further proof that dirty duty abounds on the front lines of IT."

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Trademarks

[ThrowAwaySociety]

...you're asked to throw a 'TM' after a product name, only to find out later it's not really trademarked

Slapping that TM after a product name does trademark it, unless some direct competitor has already trademarked that same name first.

Only the (R) (for Registered trademark) has to be...well, registered.

Re:I fix code written by offshore Indian developer

[rickb928]

If you can re-write what they spit out as a support function, you are working too cheap. And of course the company's accounting system is worse than the State of Arizona's. Which is bad.

What you just said was also 'I can do it as well as they can, all by myself, within a support timeline'. So you and/or your boss are not selling your abilities either. But that's another topic - how do you sell to management what they aready have? Imagine the hilarity when they realize they paid twice for the project, and one of the costs is already in the house...