Geeks Prefer Competence To Niceness 300
Death Metal writes "While everyone would like to work for a nice person who is always right, IT pros will prefer a jerk who is always right over a nice person who is always wrong. Wrong creates unnecessary work, impossible situations and major failures. Wrong is evil, and it must be defeated. Capacity for technical reasoning trumps all other professional factors, period."
and yet (Score:4, Funny)
Geeks Prefer Competence To Niceness (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, this is why we put the liberal art majors in their own building.
Geeks prefer easy women (Score:1, Funny)
Very, very easy women.
Re:and yet (Score:4, Funny)
Clearly we prefer incompetent jerks to either of the types mentioned in the summary :)
Re:Can't happen (Score:2, Funny)
a third kind that is easier to find (Score:1, Funny)
I'm still waiting to meet one or the other. Meanwhile I constantly run into a 3rd kind : Jerks who just do things wrong.
Re:and yet (Score:4, Funny)
Warum tun wir das?
I can attest to that (Score:5, Funny)
Although my place of work is generally full of competent people, my girlfriend's isn't, and while it is frustrating for her, it provides a constant inflow of amusement when I hear her evening updates. The last one involved a girl walking out of the room because she was pissed off at the two other girls working with her. My girlfriend asked her what's wrong, and it went on like:
- Oh, there was too much tentonton.
- Uhmm... tentonton?
- Yeah, you know, too many girls.
- Uhmm... do you mean testosterone?
- Yeah, that.
- But that's a male hormone.
- Whatever, the female one.
Tentonton. And the best is that this is not exceptional.
Re:I would take (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Ahem. (Score:1, Funny)
1 - 1 = 11
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Re:Just IT people? (Score:1, Funny)
Accountant ?? What are you doing here ? Didn't you know that /. is only for real geeks ?
I've got your IP address and will get you kicked out immediately. Don't try to come back or I call your boss.
Re:I would take (Score:0, Funny)
No kidding...after all, there are competent folks out there who also have the personal skills. Really, this whole post is silly.
If that's truly the way you read the summary you are a hopeless fucking idiot. Never post anything again, better yet never open your mouth and save humanity some headache.
Re:This is news? (Score:2, Funny)
People who think work is a good place to meet new friends are the same people who ask bartenders and waiter/waitresses out on dates because they seem nice...
Re:Ahem. (Score:3, Funny)
Yo momma so associative, her Grothendieck group is isomorphic to Z for a bounded complex of finite dimensional vector spaces possessing the standard Euler characteristic.
Ah yes, (Score:3, Funny)
You follow the sysadmin oath then eh?
I am hired because I know what I am doing, not because I will do whatever I am told is a good idea.
This might cost me bonuses, raises, promotions, and may even label me as âoeundesirableâ by places I donâ(TM)t want to work at anyway, but I donâ(TM)t care.
I will not compromise my own principles and judgement without putting up a fight.
Of course, I wonâ(TM)t always win, and I will sometimes be forced to do things I donâ(TM)t agree with. My objections will be made known.
If I am shown to be right and problems later develop, I will shout âoeI told you so!â repeatedly, laugh hysterically, and do a small dance or jig as appropriate to my heritage.
Re:and yet (Score:3, Funny)
No, it's just that we prefer jerks and don't care about competence, as long as they're abusive.
Proof: We let managers run companies.