scruffbags

As there are people who work in IT here...

Do they ever wash?

Do they ever wash the coats they live in?!

Will they have read this?

we had a honking delivery man today - was not pleasant!

wasnt me

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

As there are people who work in IT here... Kinda, prefer to call it DP

Do they ever wash? Yes, daily shower and wash/shave.

Do they ever wash the coats they live in?! Yes

Will they have read this? Dunno, you decide

HTH

Good.
You're obviously too high a caliber for my work

It's an interesting one, I've seen three generations of IT "professionals". The first generation is the "aging hippies", these are the ones who learnt COBOL the first time round, are frighteningly intelligent, who still wear jesus sandles and long gray pony tails but get away with it as their age and weathered features makes it somehow look cool in an aging hippy kinda way. Their social skills are perfectly normal, and generally pretty chilled.

Second generation is "rise of the nerds", these are the kids who had ZX81s as kids, who figured out how to make a Ping-Pong program on their casio scientific calculator. They were the nerds at school, but history placed them at the job market just as the IT explosion took off, therefore their complete lack of social skills was no hindrance to an economy crying out for more IT skills. This is the generation who give the profession a bad name. This is the generation to which I belong Some of this generation did finally realise that pony tails didn't quite work any more, that washing occasionally helps, and yes, some of us even got laid. Many of us are managers these days, and we find ourselves hiring the third generation...

The third generation are actually completely normal, they've grown up in a world that has always had computers and complex networks, they practically learn subnetting IP networks as they're learning to read and write. Everyone in this generation knows about computers, some of them take that further and become IT people, some go other routes, it's just a career choice like any other.

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

It's an interesting one, I've seen three generations of IT "professionals". The first generation is the "aging hippies", these are the ones who learnt COBOL the first time round, are frighteningly intelligent, who still wear jesus sandles and long gray pony tails but get away with it as their age and weathered features makes it somehow look cool in an aging hippy kinda way. Their social skills are perfectly normal, and generally pretty chilled.

COBOL?? Pah! FORTRAN and assembler you mean. Don't do sandals though.....

[timwilky]

My employer supplies us with two shirts with company logo a year, so no real reason not to change, except I wear a clean shirt as well as socks/undies every day.

However, the smelliest guy I ever had to work with was a metallurgist who I had to share an electron microscope with. His jacket was rotting. He hummed and only because I was the new boy that they made me work with him. He stank of stale sweat, urine and god knows what

I taught myself ZX-BASIC, BBC BASIC, and Z80 machine language, wrote a computerised pricing system (on an Acorn Electron!) for a retail outlet and my A-level electronics project was a 3-channel sound interface complete with machine code program that turned a 48K Spectrum keyboard into a "paino keyboard" (rather crudely) ... all by the age of 18!

I then went on to learn FORTRAN, COBOL, and 6502 machine langauge. Followed by some more self-taught "programming" using Java and then HTML and Javascript.

Most of my IT jobs have been of a "technical" nature.

I don't wear sandals, and consider myself to have fairly normal social skills and be pretty "chilled". I've NEVER had a pony-tail (and never will - but that's no longer my choice LMAO)

So which category do I fit into?!

EDIT: Yes I wash daily, and I also wash my coat ... now I'll just go get it!

I'm tempted to make a 'do fat people smell more' thread. But I don't think it would go down well