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⌈ Secret Post #2666 ⌋

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Comments

Re: How does the general public view your job

[pantswarrior]

I'm in web development, and ... honestly pop culture has a pretty accurate take on what my department is like. We're a bunch of nerds making nerdy jokes at each other, working in cubicles surrounded by fun gadgets that most of the world would find pointless, randomly drawing robots on stuff, putting on a cheerful face and "can-do!" attitude for those who we do web work for and then as soon as they're gone? Griping about or mocking them for their utter ineptitude with computers, poor design taste, unrealistic demands, etc. Also coding "beta" versions of stuff full of internet memes and unflattering pictures of each other. So, you know, we're totally stereotypical programmers.

(Although my group is actually not the "overweight and never sees the light of day" programmer archetype, as the employer is big on employee wellness, and so everyone gets like an hour a day to go to the gym and work out on the clock, and we're free to have meetings while hiking through the nature preserve out back of the property, and one of the "pointless but fun" gadgets that a couple people in the department now have are those desks that are basically a computer tray attached to a treadmill, so you can walk a few miles while you program. And me and one of the guys are heavily into some of the regional sports teams. So we're like these weird nerd/jock hybrids.)

Re: How does the general public view your job

[(Anonymous)]

Where do you work and how do I get in

Re: How does the general public view your job

[pantswarrior]

Local community college, and you can only get in if you know the secret entry code. ;)

...Seriously. The building that's ours used to be the campus daycare center, so there's a security system set up so that you have to be let in by staff, or know the code to punch in. And when they decided to house the "administrative computing" staff there instead of over in the main building where the public might accidentally interact with us, they were going to repaint the walls, because they were covered with cartoon murals of trees and bushes and jungle animals. The current staff were like "Nah, leave it!" and subsequently labelled the monkeys and lions with each other's names and hung Christmas tree lights on the trees with thumbtacks.

To go with the the real office tree, which is a small evergreen who was introduced to me on my first day as Al. As in Al Pine.

My job really does live up to pretty much all the stereotypes, and I couldn't be more pleased.

Re: How does the general public view your job

[otakugal15]

"Griping about or mocking them for their utter ineptitude with computers, poor design taste, unrealistic demands, etc."

this is why I decided to NOT pursue a career in Graphic Design.

I HATED that attitude. Though the unrealistic demands is justified, but the superficial bullshit about making fun of them just pissed me the fuck off.

Re: How does the general public view your job

[(Anonymous)]

I know right! Gosh, how dare people ever complain to each other that their customers are silly, unreasonable, or difficult to work with. Surely the height of unprofessionalism.

Re: How does the general public view your job

[otakugal15]

Look fucker, that's not what I'm talking about and you fucking know it. Fuck off.

Re: How does the general public view your job

[pantswarrior]

Well, to be fair, we don't actually "mock" them except about particularly awful taste.

Like one of the women who regularly sends me work, now that we've taken over all the web updating, used to do the updating for her department... and she is one of the reasons we took over all of the web updating. Because she's a very nice woman, I really like her as a person... but when she was in charge of her department's part of the site, she insisted on adding cutesy animated clip art that made it look like it was from 1994. So "the dancing bear", for instance, became a running gag among my department, and when we revamped the site, I even saved the gif in question just so I could pull it out from time to time and make everyone go "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" XD

She's great, always wants to make things as easy for us as possible, but unfortunately working with her involves a lot of explaining things like "the underlined text means you can click it and it will take you to the file I'm referring to", or trying to tactfully talk her into some design choice other than putting flashing red and yellow text or bouncing beach ball graphics on the otherwise neutral-and-blue site. I'm for some reason pretty successful at it, so the entire department just has me handle her requests.