Do your work colleagues understand your geekiness

I try to keep it hidden from most people. I think most of the people who work with me would look down on me for playing computer games and reading comics lol.
 
wingman said:
I don't think they know I am geeky, not that I hide it, but I don't share it with people who aren't.
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There is always that moment when you meet someone new and have a feeling they might be as nerdy as you... so you probe a bit and find out what you're dealing with :D
 
Its not so bad these days a good number of people I work with, even those you wouldn't really think, have atleast a basic understanding and passing interest in things that 10 years or even 5 years ago would have been considered geeky.
 
LordSplodge said:
I had to sit through a presentation from management where they'd used Comin Sans in the PowerPoint slides.

It actually caused me physical pain. I had to sit in a dark room looking at Helvetica Neue for half hour after work just to cleanse the dirtiness I felt.
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Pah, I wish my university life was that easy. One lecturer I have had lectures from for two years has written every single slide in blindingly bright yellow comic sans on a dark blue background. Thankfully I haven't had him this year because I would have needed therapy if I had seen any more of those horrifying slides.

Back on topic, the closest I have to work is being at uni. Since I'm in the computer science department everyone understands my geekiness and a fair amount of the people take geekiness to a different league compared to me
 
Everyone knows I'm a geek. I think they would see me as much more of a geek if I didn't have a massive interest in both watching and participating in sports. That seems to nullify the geek perception a bit. Also, I'm youngest in my team @27 so it seems a little more accepted that I game and go to iSeries.
 
I love it.

out of all the people that work nights at our place (about 500 people) there are 2 maybe 3 people who know anything about computers, which means im constantly under a barrage of "if i bring my laptop in will ya fix it me" or "my computer is doing this, can ya sort it out?" It gets me tinkering with things i wouldnt usually be able to get hold of, it keeps my building itch at bay, so i dont have to spend thousands each year and i get some nice payments (i never ask for anything) of sweets, beer and old hardware!

people dont really understand why i go to LAN events though, or computer fairs etc, but they never critisise, they know it could be their computer that goes pop next haha
 
Mrs Seabiscuit, I work in the NHS as well. Mainly an admin role booking interpreters for patients, with 3 girl colleagues. The 2 younger girls are obsessed with Facebook on their phones, but they are PC-proficient with Excel and data extraction, and they know that the web is more than just eBay and Facebook. The remaining girl who is a generation older than us spends all day browsing for clothes on eBay - I see her quickly hiding her IE window when I get up from my chair lol. She is also the type who forgets her Windows password and has to phone up IT service desk every few weeks to ask for a password reset :p
 
I work in IT and plenty of people will openly talk about geeky stuff like gaming, comic books and so forth. That said there is still an expectation that you should spend your weekends/holidays out and about rather than sat indoors on a PC :)
 
bitslice said:
I was the only one in an IT department who was actually interested in the subject :(

'what do you mean you read books and forums about computers? :confused:'
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This is the same as me, I work for an IT company and there is only one or two out of many (100s) that actually like computers out side of work. Some of the actually hate computers to some extent. They use them for utility kind of like my mom does. But they don't care about E3 (probably don't even know what it is) or other conferences or latest news on tech, they don't even follow security news. Its pathetic. They didn't even know what TED was. :confused:

There is one or two that i can talk to about computer related things. But when i started talking about SSD they thought i was from another planet.

A lot of them or at least, some of them, definitely look down on me because i don't go out every night and get drunk in a pub/club. Some of them even look down on me because i don't go to the gym or follow popular culture.
 
I don't let on how geeky I am, gaming, building computers, programming, playing around with micro controllers etc but as most of the work is at client sites IT aren't local so I do tend to become the mobile IT support, showing them how to do this is excel, how to get on the internet at the client, etc

It's something that puts me ahead of others as I can do the work and help everyone else with their IT issues, so its got to be a plus being geeky.
 
I am the other way around, I work at an ISP and I find over the top geekery a bit annoying at times, don't get me wrong I am a bit of a geek but sometimes it gets a little cliched.
 
i worked 6 months in a laptop retailers RMA repair department and the level of geekyness started annoying me.

Out of 4 guys i was the only one not heavily into comic books and World of Warcraft, sounds nice if you are a gamer but it gets really boring fast. They used to play together too so it was a pretty closed circle of geekyness :P

Oh god they used to LARP too ....and play D&D it was as cliche geeky as you could get.

it made me with my call of duty and everquest 2 "hobbies" feel pretty normal :P
 
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