Oh dear. I’ve seen lots of puerile, macho madness in the IT business in my time, but this takes the biscuit. The gang of admins behind me are now calling themselves ‘The A Team’ and have just announced that they can solve any problem for anyone anytime, and they 'don't even need a black guy with a van’.
I remember giggling when some small guy told me he was my ‘scrum master’. I’ve smirked as project managers have ordered me into ‘the war room’. I laughed out loud when another PM told me he was moving the whole project to a ‘skunk works’ in the next building.
What makes short, fat, weedy little office geeks that barely have the physical strength to lift a fully fledged mug of coffee think they’re smart if they use ridiculous military, sporting or film analogies for their boring little button pressing exercises?
Come on people, what we do is the wimpiest, softest, safest and most comfortable job on earth. We sit behind a computer telling it to do stuff we can’t be bothered to do for ourselves. It involves no physical effort, pain, risk or courage whatsoever. Don’t call yourselves the ‘A Team’ or I’ll be tempted to hire a big black guy with a Mohican haircut to come and kick the tulip out of you.
I remember giggling when some small guy told me he was my ‘scrum master’. I’ve smirked as project managers have ordered me into ‘the war room’. I laughed out loud when another PM told me he was moving the whole project to a ‘skunk works’ in the next building.
What makes short, fat, weedy little office geeks that barely have the physical strength to lift a fully fledged mug of coffee think they’re smart if they use ridiculous military, sporting or film analogies for their boring little button pressing exercises?
Come on people, what we do is the wimpiest, softest, safest and most comfortable job on earth. We sit behind a computer telling it to do stuff we can’t be bothered to do for ourselves. It involves no physical effort, pain, risk or courage whatsoever. Don’t call yourselves the ‘A Team’ or I’ll be tempted to hire a big black guy with a Mohican haircut to come and kick the tulip out of you.
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