Its almost a year since I have started working in, you guessed it right, IT.its been good to bad to weird to downright ABSURD and have noticed quite a few things which makes it different from other walks of occupation. So how do you know you work in IT
You know you work in IT When/IF:
1. You believe there is no point going out for lunch/dinner if drinks are not involved
2. You know that Escalations have nothing to do with stairs
3. You have 2 cell phones 1 of which you never carry to office and only your family and friends know about it
4. You know the places where liquor is available 24*7 even on dry days
5. Writing mails is way more important than the work you do. It’s an art and you always wonder how you managed to work without mails while in college
6. Anything you find interesting will be if not already is, BLOCKED
7. The most important lesson you have learnt is to never ever argue with your manager. It’s going to backfire for sure.
8. You hate the company and the client you work for.
9. Sleeping between the meetings while still echoing ‘I agree absolutely’ is 1 thing you have perfected
10. You firmly believe that ‘networking’ is an overhyped word.
11. You can’t explain your work to the seniors in your family or their friends
14. Identifying who screwed up is more important than the work itself
15. When asked about weekends the reply HAS to be “I have got plans” if you don’t want to work on Saturdays
16. It’s not official until on mail
17. Everyone knows how to play Ping-Pong
18. Tea and coffee tastes awful but you still drink it because it helps pass time
19. Being on bench is not at all comfortable
20. You know the difference between H1 and B1
21. You think getting a MBA degree will solve most of your problems if not all
22. All your non-IT friends think you are a budding millionaire
23. You know major landmarks in Bangalore as the back of your head
24. ‘SIT’ ‘UAT’ ‘Billable’ ‘Performance testing’ ‘Resource utilization’ ‘Data validation’ are terms that are used everyday and actually make sense to you
25. You hate your job
Have you observed something that’s unique to this job?
Do share
It seems like the industry is slowly turning you into a toy running on keys.
ReplyDeleteMan thnkgod m a student! But yeh someday i too will be writing a post about my job.
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ReplyDelete25th point is probably unique to any job
And people from all over the earth meet you up and ask you "WHERE ARE YOU FROM?" :)
ReplyDeleteGood one Madhav :)
:P :P All my gtalk friends are from IT :P :P That means gmail is not yet blocked :P
ReplyDeleteAnd yes don't IT guys have a beer belly? Thanks to the dinner only if drinks provided and the junk they feed on?? That is one thing I observed :P
Interesting read..But the topic is in circulation over mails already. lol.
ReplyDelete@red handed..well i have understood the meaning of the word 'slog' thanks for reading
ReplyDelete@sub...yes it looked incomplete if i didnt add that point hence! thanks for reading
@jerry...yaa thats very irritating at times...thanks for reading
@maithilli....yep beer is considered drink, lasts long and so the belly :P thanks for reading
@sgauta81...i know thats wat got me thinking.i never claimed it to be ORIGINAL ;) thanks for reading
hahah.. nice. Having Done BCA these are the exact reasons am choosing HR as my career! xD
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Great post. My best friend is in IT and i can't help but agree with the points.
ReplyDeleteHaving spent long, long years in that field (and escaped), I can relate to much of it. And if I can add to point #24, the "tech" jargon we throw around includes, 'do you have the bandwidth?', 'let's take this offline', 'has to be finished by EOD', ...
ReplyDeletefortunately I have forgotten much of it.
I like the pic u selected.. :)
ReplyDeleteIT is a frustating and an underpaid job.
ReplyDeleteunless u are from the top cream college.
Most of the ones including me aspire a job/field shift.