Reply to: Are there a lot of people who work in IT that have weird personality disorders?

[Old Greg]

Only had one really bad manager (permie). He constantly bitched about how much they were paying me. The jibes about gold wheelbarrows, every time I got him to sign a timesheet, wore a bit thin after a while.

Funny thing is, he used to be an "over paid" contractor before he went perm.

You should have tipped him a couple of quid every time he signed a timesheet, to keep him sweet.

[caffeine man]

re point 1 public sector employees. In 2002 i worked on a public sector site. A perm guy there, would take 6 months off "sick", then come in for 6 months. The idea being he was coming in enough not to get fired. When coming in, he would wear his own neck brace, the kind that crash victims wear, just so he could pretend to be uncomfortable with his back. Never seen anything like it since.

[DealorNoDeal]

Only had one really bad manager (permie). He constantly bitched about how much they were paying me. The jibes about gold wheelbarrows, every time I got him to sign a timesheet, wore a bit thin after a while.

Funny thing is, he used to be an "over paid" contractor before he went perm.

[MrMarkyMark]

That's one way to get Security to terminate your back to work interview.

It's OK, he licked them first

[Old Greg]

I have I have....

I swapped 2 keyboards last week and a mouse...

That's one way to get Security to terminate your back to work interview.

[psychocandy]

PC's never worked a day in his life.

I have I have....

I swapped 2 keyboards last week and a mouse...

[psychocandy]

Isn't filling in JSA forms work?

PS - don't forget that as PC is protected in professional forums to give double abuse in general...

Takes ages those JSA forms....

[psychocandy]

You did not sign up on the dole?

The one I left early? Nah got another gig.

[MrMarkyMark]

Depends who you ask and whether I have had to cause to rip them a new arseh0le recently

[Pogle]

I am a delight to work with

But i am usually surrounded by geeks, freaks and Mummies boys....

[clearedforlanding]

Yes, Me.

[BrilloPad]

PC's never worked a day in his life.

Isn't filling in JSA forms work?

PS - don't forget that as PC is protected in professional forums to give double abuse in general...

[Old Greg]

Have you looked in the mirror much recently?

PC's never worked a day in his life.

[MrMarkyMark]

Are there a lot of people who work in IT that have weird personality disorders?

Have you looked in the mirror much recently?

[hairymouse]

I don't know about the autism thing, I think it's a bit of a stereotype.

You guys remember the Gary Mckinnon case? He "hacked" a ton of US military systems and was caught and the US wanted to extradite him to serve some time in a miserable prison. They finally started arguing he was autistic even though the primary symptoms were being good at computers and not wanting to be gang raped in a US prison. And he wasn't even good at computers, he was just a script kiddie taking advantage of the fact that most military computers at the time still had the default password.

All kids and most adults spend every minute looking at their phones. They can't all have personality disorders.