Thread: I HATE Computers

I was never ever going to be a manager. Been on a few teams where someone "lower" got promoted to being my boss. Funny how the bigger guys always ask if its ok first before they do it. I tell them fine. Most were OK at it even, Only a few dud ones.

I hate the paperwork, meeting, report stuff, political stuff and the bower bird dancing around each other to negotiate.

Got to the point where I was not allowed to go to meetings. Someone else always went and reported back to me.

Seems managers of other departments/customers don't like it when you tell them they have "no idea" or call them DADS (Dumb as Dog S#!T).

I was always happy making the computer do what I wanted it to.

I just had this sent to me, should be in jokes but it fits with whats here.

As we Silver Surfers know, sometimes we have trouble with our computers.
I had a problem yesterday, so I called Eric, the 11 year old next door,
whose bedroom looks like Mission Control and asked him to come over.
Eric clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem.
As he was walking away, I called after him, 'So, what was wrong?

He replied, 'It was an ID ten T error.'
I didn't want to appear stupid, but nonetheless inquired,
'An, ID ten T error? What's that? In case I need to fix it again.'
Eric grinned ... 'Haven't you ever heard of an ID ten T error before?
'No,' I replied.
'Write it down,' he said, 'and I think you'll figure it out.'
So I wrote down:
ID10T
I used to like Eric, the little $%<@ head.

I always looked for employment as a bit of a generalist IT person working in a non-IT industry. It's a little harder for another manager to challenge you outright when they know nothing of your field of expertise. (But you already know that doesn't stop some.) I started out as a one man show in the beginning and ended up in bigger and better managerial roles but only ever had small staff numbers working under me. I guess there was drive and ambition forcing me along.

Illness and forced retirement stopped all that a few years ago. I really have no interest in returning to professional IT. Miss the interaction but not the expectation.