Monday, February 06, 2006

The IT Crowd: 10 things that don't make it geeky enough

1) Not enough cables lying around. If you can see the carpet, it's not an IT room

2) No server rack twinkling prettily in the corner, with a desk fan turned in its direction to serve as 'air conditioning'

3) No secret porn/network games server - usually an ancient 486 that somebody has overclocked to oblivion, with several extra gigabytes of memory nicked from sales' computers.

4) No secret spying on colleagues' emails in the interests of 'security'

5) No Star Wars/Matrix/Trekker/Buffy memorabilia with attendant 'in-jokes' like naming all the mail servers after Darth Vader's closest personal friends.

6) Only one machine per desk? Amateurs!

7) No tottering pile of yellowing O'Reilly books propping up a table corner which in turn props up the semi-redundant Sun server.

8) Nobody ringing up with enquiries about the printer not working because it hasn't got any paper.

9) Decor too tasteful.

10) Not enough Pot Noodles/mangy old Pret wrappers/empty boxes of ProPlus littering the floor underneath the desk. And NO KETTLE. How do these people eat if there is no kettle with which to reheat one's Pot Noodle?

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