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- birdwatcher3000, on 10/12/2007, -9/+75100% more likely not to have a girlfriend :(
- usp8riot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+54This is SO me, well, except for the ponytail.
...wait, should I be bragging about this? - armbar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+48You should definitely be bragging about the not having a ponytail part, at least.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+49Well.. tech guys are generally smart. And smart people tend to like Opeth, Tool, and Dimmu Borgir.
End of story. ;-) - ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -6/+35News flash:
You are judged by appearance. It's not 1995 anymore, you are no longer perceived as some amazing wizard of unknown tallents, here to save the day. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Actually a lot of IT people have wife's not girlfriends. Where I would there are only 2 people out of our office of 16 that didn't have a girl friend / wife
- catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18haha the guy in the office next to mine is pretty metal he wears one of those black string vests over a opeth shirt...
I LOVE metal but I don't dress like that...I'm just 'normal', jeans and shirt kinda guy.
In my youth i was a bit more that way inclined but I realised past 18 people will think you're a bit weird and won't give you a job.
Goth girls are hot. - yournamehere, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Tech guys are generally smart? Not the lower end of them. In fact, the lower half rides on the coat tails of the upper half. That lower half is stupid and/or lazy.
Just yesterday one of my tech guys needed to FTP one of my files to a VM. He didn't know how to do it. So instead of asking how to use FTP he snuck off, made a CD of the file and stuck it on the machine that was running the VMs so he could link to it and copy it over.
lazy and dumb! - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Sounds like she thinks she'll have no problem replacing you, should the need arise.
- ViperDaimao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Hmm, I think I'm going to wear my black jeans and Iced Earth shirt for the next causal friday...
- ScornForSega, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14HA!
I've got a Tool shirt on under my nice work shirt and a mini-mag in my pocket! - Dimensio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"(No I didn't download them, program them, build them, or buy them, and no I don't need an air pump to inflate them; that about covers most of the replies that someone'll make, lol)"
How were you able to drug them? - dragongrrl, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18
i guess the black jeans hide the grime better. plus, they look sweet with a Megadeth or a Tool shirt!
seriously, we are lucky that we don't have to give a ***** what other people think of what we wear in a work setting. it's always better to be judged on ability, anyway. - wyrdness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10My wife's reaction, "that sounds like you, darling. There must be lots of you's out there!"
- andersonmanly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Corporate management 68% likely to order a report on what their IT people wear.
- Gryfft, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Causal Friday...
You read this article, therefore as a direct effect you will wear something different? - bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Finally, an article that actually makes me laugh. Good stuff and completely believable. The ponytail one... thats just scary.
- daeken, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11For reverse-engineering, I listen a ton of Pat Metheny, Jethro Tull, and mellow Porcupine Tree.
For no-pressure coding, I listen to a lot of Pat Metheny, Elliott Smith, Dream Theater, mellow Tool, and mellow Opeth.
For down-to-the-wire coding, I listen to a metric ***** of Tool, Opeth, Liquid Tension Experiment, Dream Theater, Sonata Arctica, Heavenly, Adagio, etc.
It's amazing how well certain music fits to what you're coding as well. For ASM, I tend to go for more precise music -- lots of jazz. For C, lots of jazz and acoustic rock type stuff. For Python, anything can go. - fredosan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9This was me *before* I went into the IT field... well, except replace the heavy metal tees with cartoon, alt-rock, video game, or plain black ones.
- bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Black jeans especially. Noone except goths, emos and IT though there may be some overlap there.
Yours sincerely,
Non-goth IT worker. - armbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8That sounded more like a classified ad than a digg comment.
- itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9heh, i'm wearing a 'tool' shirt right now
- mudfly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8We are all just statistics so the ***** marketers know how to sell us.
Excuse me sir, would you like to add on a Megadeth skin for Windows Vista Server edition for an extra $100? - pritch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7No, but it's not only the users who judge, is it?
In large corporates these days, HR make the majority of the decisions, and if they're weighing up two people for an internal vacancy who look the same on paper, one of whom they've seen wandering around the building in scruffy jeans and a Megadeth T-shirt against the other one who wears neat polo shirts and chinos...
That said, I'm not the tidiest dressed. But my nearest HR person is 400 miles away! - tdogg241, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9So you're an emo kid then?
- Sartori, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I'm a heavy metal fan...
...but I have short hair and don't wear band t-shirts. I now feel strange :) - DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Hmm...
Ponytail? No
Black T-shirt? Yes with a camo shrt over that
Leatherman? Yes
Black jeans? No, more camo, though
Are my clothes clean? Only when I'm not moving old monitors in the hot sun.
Oh wait, I'm in the Air Force. - ChaserHimself, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6All the IT guys here I couldn't envision wearing metal shirts (except me with my Opeth and Iron Maiden shirts), but they seem to all have pictures of motorcycles as their destop wallpaper.
- loudmax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Next causal Friday, I shall wear my HUMAN PANTS!
- Systembomber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Baggy jeans ftw :)
Why wear a pair of uncomfortable tight jeans that you can't even walk in! - lobsang, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8"100% more likely not to have a girlfriend :("
Yes, of course. They all come with proprietary, hard to decipher software. The code hasn't been maintained in a long time, the programmer is now dead and half the source code went down the pipe.
If only I could find an open source girlfriend... - dotdan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I always thought I was a minority, being a programmer that enjoys copious amounts of metal..
Looks like I'm a statistic, instead :D - ashcnshsad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@merreborn
Of course, his wife is a geek too... in case she has issues with her primary husband she wants a redundant hot spare available - headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"You don't like how I dress yet you get pissed when I refuse to answer your IT questions? Guess what I'm about to say.... (figure it out yourself?)"
Isn't answering questions your freakin' job?! You know, the thing that pays your rent and broadband bills. Way to play into the stereotype that IT people are stuck-up slack offs. - caimlas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What if we wear a kilt? I prefer kilts, OD or khaki cargos or airborn cargos, in that order... people don't know how to make pants for men any longer. (hint: I have testicles and a penis, which I don't prefer in the state of "abused" by my clothing.)
- delvach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I was sitting at my desk, half-conscious of a group of people gathered around some malfunctioning piece of technology and heard someone say, "We need a set of needle-nosed pliars; nobody's gonna have one of those." I quickly whipped out my well-worn & weathered Leatherman and exposed the gritty teeth of my pliars with a practiced flick of the wrist. Couldn't have had a better effect if they'd been able to see the Batman Underoos I had on underneath.
- pillfred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5don't, its the metal in your heart that counts.
"if your not into metal, then you are not my friend!" - Manowar - brianegge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Direct link: http://www.intermedia.net/about-us/news/2006/IT-people-are-different.asp
- catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's called being INSPIRED!
- Dimensio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Should I just let my hair hang loose? I would think that such an arrangement would look untidy and unprofessional.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Isn't that 1?
- pillfred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sadly we are judged by appearance but after being at a job for any amount of time it's your work that matter's. Obviously you don't go to an interview in a cannibal corpse t-shirt; on second thought you shouldn't wear one at work anyhow. These (types) of people are starting to take higher up positions in places as well, maybe not on the extreme end, neck tattoo's and such, but still people who have most likely been exposed to the last few generations and society in general. I bet there are more than a few suits out there who have hardcore roots. And your right 95 was 11 years ago thing have progressed even more.
- insinuate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Rock on brother. m/
- delvach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+427%!
- elroy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4this story is hilarious.
pony-tail and neck-beard for the win! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Note: listening to Dimmu Borgir on iTunes, never heard of them, totally laughing especially with the " Dimmu is what would be on my iPod while providing IT assistance" comment. Not bad though so far. I digg the speed metal stuff sometimes.
- insinuate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Hell yeah! finally I know I'm not the only IT guy like that
- krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -3/+7marked as spam for linking to the ad-ridden 4 liner substring intro of the the article. link to the actual articles if you don't want this to happen again.
- duster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'll be wearing my Hawaiian shirt and jeans this friday!
- opethlike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No.
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