Why are IT Techs so up their own bottoms?

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I don't say this lightly and its come after years of experience but virtually every IT Tech I've come across have been up their own ass.
Every one has come over as arrogant and as though they're a few steps up the ladder from 'normal' folk.
From the years I spent at a factory, fixing PC's in a local school, working at a juvenile prison, visiting many shops including the blue shirts and now working at the NHS - every Tech guy has been arrogant and I've met quite a few.
This even extends to work experience - every department at the NHS will allow work experience but IT flatly refuse.

Perhaps I've just had bad experiences but I've yet to meet a nice one.

Ooops - could have sworn I was in GD (first time I've done that).
 
I can imagine that on the NHS they don't do work experience in IT because of the nature of the data that you'd be able to access.
 
You're saying this on a tech forum of which at least a few members might be tech guys :p

However, I know what you mean... *Runs off* :p
 
We're not all that way. I work in a department of four of us, and only one of us is what I would call up his own bottom!
So 3/4's of us are good people!
 
Exactly the reason why I will never ever forge a career in IT Tech. Being turned into an arrogant, up-his own bum individual isnt what I aspire towards.

And if you think its only males then think again! Women are now the new breed lol
 
A lot of them seem to have entirely unwarranted superiority complexes and massive chips on their shoulder, perhaps due to the line of their work.
 
ElectroBlaster said:
Exactly the reason why I will never ever forge a career in IT Tech. Being turned into an arrogant, up-his own bum individual isnt what I aspire towards.

And if you think its only males then think again! Women are now the new breed lol
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I think this would push me even further into an IT career and being a very nice person :p Then I'd be the only nice IT guy :D
 
I started work in a senior capacity in the NHS about 6 months ago, have to agree with you, there are security concerns with having work experience people in but frankly if the data etc should be secure enough to have people in the department and shadowing other staff! Our department flatly refuses work experience people, no reasons given, they're just not interested.

There is a stuffiness in some areas of IT inside most NHS boards, but luckily where I work 80% + of the techs/engineers etc are pretty ace. However there are those 20% of people doing desktop support who seem to think they're super efficient and invaluable. Frankly they're neither! Why is it that some people think they're so much better because they can reset an extra two passwords per day? Fortunately I don't do desktop support or I'd have lamped them with a keyboard by now!

Marky said:
I think this would push me even further into an IT career and being a very nice person :p Then I'd be the only nice IT guy :D
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I'm there, everyone asks for me now which sadly means I just get more work than the others!
 
dmpoole said:
I don't say this lightly and its come after years of experience but virtually every IT Tech I've come across have been up their own ass.
Every one has come over as arrogant and as though they're a few steps up the ladder from 'normal' folk.
From the years I spent at a factory, fixing PC's in a local school, working at a juvenile prison, visiting many shops including the blue shirts and now working at the NHS - every Tech guy has been arrogant and I've met quite a few.
This even extends to work experience - every department at the NHS will allow work experience but IT flatly refuse.

Perhaps I've just had bad experiences but I've yet to meet a nice one.

Ooops - could have sworn I was in GD (first time I've done that).
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Because 90% of them are nerdy virgins who spend every non working, non waking hour playing WoW. The only thing they have over us normal folk is they have some (minor, generally) nerdy skillz. Its is obvious therefore, that they use this insignificant advantage to try and convince themselves that it in some ways makes up for thaeir lack of ability in every single other area of life.

It doesnt.

They seem to think that every time they say 'LOLZ - they thought their PC was broken, but they'd forgotten to turn on the monitor!, LAWKS' that it makes them better than the poor victimn of their condescension. It doesnt, and moreover, that 'victim' probably knows what a real naked woman looks like.....
 
We have a few people in our place who are up their own ass but considering the size of the department there aren't that many. Certainly no more than any other department in the Hospital, in fact I can think of quite a lot of them that are considered to be far more arrogant than we could ever be!

We have had work experience people with us before but not that many ask. We also have quite a few students working with us over the summer.
 
I'm shocked - I thought I would have been flamed to death but most others see it too.
I also like the tactic of coming to your PC, not knowing what to do, make up some excuse, bugger off to look at Google or talk to other nerds, come back to fix problem and walk away as though they're superior.
 
dmpoole said:
I'm shocked - I thought I would have been flamed to death but most others see it too.
I also like the tactic of coming to your PC, not knowing what to do, make up some excuse, bugger off to look at Google or talk to other nerds, come back to fix problem and walk away as though they're superior.
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Perhaps they are just walking away and your thinking far too much into it?
 
but on the otherhand even as a tech on a good day you could save the company big money.

1 quick access database and a few reports and suddenly you have made someone redundant (someone on our place used to get paid to get the daily production report and rewrite it in the order the line managers wanted :( )
 
I can see what you mean and a lot of us are like that... although most that I have to deal with seem great guys, its probably just Cornwall :p

Perhaps the older guys? us younguns just have a laugh and play pranks quite a bit...

Then again at the seminars I have been to there are always the few bellstarts ;)
 
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