Why does CUK attract the less savoury people in IT? Why is it like a classroom in here?
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Why does CUK attract the less savoury people in IT?
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostWhy does CUK attract the less savoury people in IT? Why is it like a classroom in here?
*Disclaimer: the theory does obviously not apply to anyone reading, writing or participating anyhow to this threadI've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light. -
checks the forum is General... yes...
Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostWhy does CUK attract the less savoury people in IT?
b) because we make easy targets for tulipbags.
c) because the industry does contain more socially inept people than the average.
Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostWhy is it like a classroom in here?
Oh, yeah. I see what you mean now.
Let's see how much abuse that attracts...Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostWhy is it like a classroom in here?Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostWhy does CUK attract the less savoury people in IT? Why is it like a classroom in here?
Oh sorry, that's nursery isnt it'Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual'. -
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Because it's a site for contractors (who perhaps over time begin to think their salary equates to status) in IT (where it's hardly unusual to find those lacking social skills).
I also wonder if the contractor demographic tends to be more skewed than the rest of IT, since it perhaps attracts people who don't fit well in a normal workplace environment? Is that fair?Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Two reasons
Most contactors are self-opinionated know it all’s, after all we get paid for what we do best, and what we do must be right, and let's be honest - we get paid more than the permies so we must be better.
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Most people in IT are childish nerds, with interests such as Si-Fi, Gaming and hi-tech gadgets
Put that together and you find the average IT Contractor here
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There is some truth in both of the posts above. Then again it's sometimes hard to judge who is serious here, who is trolling, who is having a laugh and who is genuinely mentally disturbed. There are some good eggs here and some truely rotten ones. Then you get a lot of following the pack, agreeing and fortifying simplistic cliches ,innacurate but safe comic parodies of real life, where white middle class males are ever under attack. Rigourous debate is rejected in favour of stereotyping, probably as much as anything to provoke reaction, relieve boredom or just as a lazy shorthand to save time. I do remember a time before the cut n paste, Daily Mail, grumpy old man routine.Last edited by Bagpuss; 22 February 2009, 20:13.The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”Comment
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Originally posted by Bagpuss View PostThere are some good eggs here
This is very true
Wish I was one of them......Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostAt 9:05 tomorrow everyone start humming until admin goes nuts and puts us all into detention. Pass it on
post of the week surely?Comment
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