I did a 4 year apprenticeship scheme at Newcastle University in their networking department
Getting the same train to work each day I often spoke to a lad who worked as a techy in the library there as we often worked together when they needed new cabling done. His mate worked at the company I'm now at as we got talking on the train to and from work each week.

He ended up being my boss for 2 years then left and I've been here for 14 years now. I do like my job. It isn't particularly well paid, but it is interesting and the lads I work with are a great bunch. Without wishing it to sound like shitfest "The Office", there is always some joke/stupidity going on, pisstaking, etc and that is what gets me here and has kept me here. The thought of working in an open plan office where no fun was allowed scared the shit out of me.
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 10:58, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I'm in an open plan office
Every other department is expected to be well behaved and stick to bathroom break schedules and stuff. Then they walk past our department and get annoyed by the way we're always fucking about.

I think IT staff are generally pretty juvenile.
( Kroney, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 11:04, Reply)

Yep, agree 100%
*throws sponge dart*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 11:31, Reply)

*flicks rubber band*
*changes phone ringtone*
( Kroney, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 11:37, Reply)

*Pops M and N keys out and swaps them over*
*also has keyoboard swapped*

FUCKIMG CUMT!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 12:21, Reply)

It's open plan here, but I can't ever recall a single day without pisstaking going on

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 11:05, Reply)