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Get out mate, you’re barred
It’s a while since we called in at The Stack – the Backbytes pub – for a quick half, served in a full pint glass just to upset the more grumpy and pedantic of you out there.
Gus Carnegie at Borders Information Technology suggests that The Stack, like other pubs, should post a list on the door of unwelcome customers.
“The IT industry is lagging behind other professions in having elements that we slag off: for example, accountants slag off actuaries for being boring, and so on,” he says.
Carnegie floats the suggestion that The Stack should refuse to serve Unix administrators, “for no other reason than they are giving me grief this week”.
This, frankly, is a non-starter – they drink more pints of Old Fortran than the rest of you Bacardi Breezer-sipping lot put together. But we’re not a proper pub unless we bar someone. The question for you: who should it be?
I would like to bar IT consultants... not freelance consultants (contractors), just those from consultancies, why? because they would just take the jokes that you've just told them, reformat them and present them to you as brand new, just thought up jokes of their own.... and expect you to laugh!!!!
Posted by :Victor | October 4, 2007 9:14 AM