Do your work colleagues understand your geekiness

Yes because I work at a Software Engineering R&D company :p. This lunch time we all watched a TED talk on nuclear fusion in the social area, because we're cool like that.
 
I'm geeky about a lot of stuff, and I don't care if people know or have an opinion on it. Better to ramble inanely on forums where no one knows you than to ramble on on Facebook to people I then have to ramble on to in real life. Twitter is different, I have some seriously good friends and contacts on there and a lot of things I'm involved in get organised through there so it's a good half way house for me, I get to pick and choose what to be geeky about.
 
couple of them have sometimes talked and showed pictures of there pc. I cannot be bothered to tell anybody.

When I nearly sold up (shudder) a few years ago and I told one of the computer tech's about my pc, he nursed a semi for a few hours and then came over and told me he couldn't believe I had such a machine... it was quite lol
 
Everyone in the office thinks I am a geek but I am not really.

They are all geeky maths students and need to come to terms with it ;)
 
Nope But I've worked in a few of big companies and on the whole people in IT aren't interested in actual computers or doing anything with them outside of work. People at McDonald's don't go home and spend time on burger enthusiast forums though, a job is a job :-)
 
In my office it's a Control Room whereby Im stuck in said room for up to and over 12 hours a day.

I am the youngest and therefore my geekiness is not returned generally from most of the people I have worked with, although we get on fairly well.

Luckily one of my shift partners is a bigger geek than I so we have things to talk about so I'm pretty lucky in that respect, makes it nice to have something in common to talk about other than people rambling about cack I dont like, tv shows (Big Brother, BGT, The Voice etc) ...
 
mrbell1984 said:
Geek just means someone who is into topics on a very high level. It isn't just IT.
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I didn't say it was exclusively to do with IT. :confused:

To elaborate further perhaps... Someone says "I like Game of Thrones, I'm such a geek". No, you're someone who likes Game of Thrones. Now, if said person, actually said "I like Game of Thrones, I've got all the books, signed by the author, as well as every action figurine under the sun" or something silly. Then that would be a geek, as you're being 'geeky' about something by going that extra mile, whilst still having some semblance of social skills.
 
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pingwing said:
self service tills will also be spared?
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Can't be doing with that, absolutely can't stand self service tills... It's not the fact they are quick or easy or the fact I'm not talking to a real person.

Its the putrid noise they constantly make even when you are 2 steps ahead of it. "*Please select payment method" And I'm already entering my pin.. then as you are walking away you just hear in the background "Please collect your card and have a nice day." I mean if they only talked when you didn't do the correct action for a few seconds I wouldn't mind so much.

It has got to that point I now avoid them at all costs.

Slightly off topic I know. In terms of geekyness still being at university I tend to hide it away unless the people I am with are like minded, In the same token I don't want to hear about Xfactor last night I'm sure they don't want to hear about the latest roadmap for intel or nvidia.
 
I am the only geek in the team of 12 and they defo think it is a bit strange when I say my evening plans are to try to reach an overclock of 4GHz. They do like having a geek on the team though; I have been able to save the day a few times with my geek knowledge and I'm hopefully going to receive AutoCAD training- the only one in my team. Which will look good on my cv in my field.
 
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