IT sucks

Not to be mean but IT can suck.

I'm on the trading floor and its way cooler to be further from IT. Let me give you an example.. I go down to the 29th floor and low and behold.. they have rows of sweaty slobby dudes packed in like sardines coding away. Very few chicks. Another day I go to the IT security room to get a SecurID card and man the room smells like bad body odor. Let me tell you kids who are reading, get the hell outta IT.

IT tends to attract people with bad personal habits. Its an engineering thing. If you are a geek then you are usually unaware of everything except bits, bytes, and logarithms and dont care about showering and brushing your hair, etc. Its sad but true. The influx of 3rd world participants (to be politically correct, although I really mean is Indian & Chinese) to this mix is making it worse and worse.

Kids!! move on.. don't become a geek. The death of the american programmer has been exaggerated many times before.. but they really should just die already.

A funny tidbit.. everyday at about 3pm they grab all the trash and dump it on a mat behind this glass door (end of the stairwell) and these dudes segregate the trash. In japan you have to seperate burnable, paper, bottles, and unburnables. I guess at my company someone said screw that idea, lets just hire slaves to segregate for us and we can feel like its America. There you have it.. when labor rates are low, you get these perks. I also got a $9 (Y1000) haircut at Yurakucho station that was really quite good. These japanese have great pride in their work. From trash segregation to haircutting, they are hardcore!!!