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Yesterday I noticed a round hole in the drywall of a marketing person's office at work. I mused about what various types of people might do with such a thing, and along the way I found a difference in how I use the words "nerd" and "geek". Here are my offerings. Feel free to add your own!
- An "engineer" would fix it.
- A "nerd" would ignore it.
- A "geek" would use it for something creative, eg, mount a periscope to show who's outside the door.
- An "artist" would hang something interesting-looking in front of it (despite the fact that it's at waist height an inch from the doorframe), or might paint sunflower petals around it.
Based on these observations, marketing persons are "nerds". ;-)
- An "engineer" would fix it.
- A "nerd" would ignore it.
- A "geek" would use it for something creative, eg, mount a periscope to show who's outside the door.
- An "artist" would hang something interesting-looking in front of it (despite the fact that it's at waist height an inch from the doorframe), or might paint sunflower petals around it.
Based on these observations, marketing persons are "nerds". ;-)
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oh, she'd know it was there, but it'd be out of her scope of duties. it'd fall under Not My Problem and get ignored until either someone else pointed it out (at which time, support staff would get dragged into it) or the department was re-aligned to include Wall Holes in that person's roster of duties.
some days i can't believe the people i work with.
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Oh man. I've worked with EXACTLY THOSE PEOPLE! Except several of them were engineers, there were a few managers, etc etc. And they were in California. But otherwise, exactly those people. :-)