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March 05, 2003

The lone "computer person"...
Posted by Jess in Geek Humor

I'm not talking about being alone in an out-of-work environment. Nope.

Let's say you are the sole network admin, Domino admin, or the sole developer for your company. Let's also say that the rest of your company produces widgets.

Have you ever noticed that it's tough being in a roomful of people who talk and joke about the trials and tribulations of making widgets all day, yet you've got absolutely NO one to relate with about the trials and tribulations about being an admin/developer?

God forbid you joke about "those wild and crazy end users"... to the end users.

It's a weird and creepy feeling to shout out "and there was much rejoicing!" and NOT hear the well-known response of "yay".

I don't know how many great programming jokes I have that most people will never get.

I've been in a few companies where I was the sole admin/developer/resident geek. And it is tough when people don't understand that I might actually enjoy getting back on my computer when I get home from work and playing games.

Well, if anyone needs to throw a great computer joke out there, trust me. I'll be the one laughing my ass off, so go right ahead and share it! You're in good company.

Incidentally, this whole entry came because I noticed that I was one month and 8 days too late for this.

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That's what *we're* here for, Jess. We'll get your jokes. We'll compain about the end users with you. We're just a blog/IM/e-mail away.

Libby

Posted by: Libby at March 5, 2003 01:35 PM

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Thanks Libby! :-)
That's why you guys (gals!) rock so much.

On an interesting note, my favorite computer joke seems to be part of some cosmic circle this week.

Here I am blogging about jokes. And this one is my favorite.

And here (posted 2 days ago on Jake Howlett's site), I get to learn more about how 1 is not a prime number.

Posted by: Jess at March 5, 2003 02:20 PM

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