• Don’t use, “utilize”.
• Don’t do something, “implement” it.
• Let’s not talk about it later, rather we’ll “take it offline”.
• You’re not printing that document, you’re “cloning it to physical”.
• And so on.
  

That would be funny PK if it wasnt true :)

Its amazing if your lucky enough to be able to sit back and watch whats going on ...it does really unfold around you like you have discribed above!

James B

I found this article unfortunately to be funny however true to some degree.

I'm sure others in the IT department will begin treating you as a defacto team leader or manager, in some cases more so than their real one!!

If you can waffle on about all this crap that only you know about, because you attended all the meetings offcourse, then you must be important and naturally know more than everyone.

Thing to remember here is you cannot change who you are, once you start attending all these meetings with all these half cast managers talking "lets take this offline" speak you being a technical wizard and motivated to actually achieve something will get frustrated, and be pleading just to sit by your desk speaking to people just like you who know what is really going on.

Besides I now get payed more being a geek once more.

I know this because I came from a technical background then got promoted into management, and was frustrated by all the major losers in the management field. After a while you just get sick of there management babble and just for once want something to get done right instead of making it look right.

As a manager I was responsible for others peoples screw ups, now I am just responsible for my onw and happy as an IT geek.

If promotion and management payed me significantly more then maybe I might look at it again, but in the mean time I'll stick to avoiding useless meetings and getting payed heaps for being the only one to tune something or designing in that tool.

A manager is a different kind of beast, the art of looking as if you are doing something is frustrating for real techo's, leave this stuff to those who cant actually do anything, yes you guessed it, leave that to the "managers".

I speak about management here, because if you are made to look good by wearing the suit etc, then you will find yourself into management because you will be promoted and not be able to actually know anything because you dont read anymore or investigate things anymore, too busy just looking good, so management is the only job for which you will be suited, so look out.

Geeks Rule.

David B

LOL this article is quite funny but some what true even my work experience is still short. I've been seen as someone who always do the dirty work while my colleaque acts as a manager organising things, keep record of work and do the paper work, .... well, mainly it's my work but she likes to keep record of it and treat it like it's her work. She also likes talking about plan for the future and tries to get involved in a lot of meeting to be one of those 'managers'... everyone thinks that she's cool and smart but sorry, not in my eyes... and hopefully, I'll leave the company soon and let them see of what really happens there. :)

"Management: promoting loosers to keep them away from the productive flow..."

or something like that.

Unfortunately this is article is on the money. It's sad but true. As a geek though, I can always take the high moral ground. Unfortunately, that's all I get. When I first started in IT, I was getting $21,000 (long time ago ... galaxy far far away), the Manger two hops above me was getting $250,000. Says something about the imbalance in wages. I have no idea what the consultants were getting back then, but the Mangers had no idea about IT back then (so nothing has changed). They used to beleive you could just press a button and everything would flow out of the computer in exactly the right format for them.

In the last 20 years, I have only worked under one guy who I considered an 'enlightened' manager. All the rest had no idea about security issues (whenever we found security holes, they thought we were deliberately making them. No matter how many times we tried to explain we were finding them and tryign to fix them).

Yet, I bet if we were to shoot all those bad managers, they'd send us to prison. Doesn't make sense! :-)

Well, an article in the Sunday Times on the weekend "The Boss May Be Psycho" summed it all up. So many managers I worked under fit the psychopathic profile. Always someone elses fault because they had no clue what they were doing.