Some days you’re the one!
And some days you’re the zero.
But no matter what, computer programmers always do their bit.
In the real world of information technology, programmers can go from hero to zero in a nanosecond. Sometimes we are master pastry chefs, kneading, molding, and shaping fine data into intricate informational croquembouches for our clients’ consumption. But many of us work in organizations where our users, co-workers, and managers seem to be operating in states of perpetual stack overflow. So all too often, we are dung beetles—gathering, shaping, and rolling heaping piles of dirty data into balls of muck that are buried deep within corporate data stores.
This book contains 2**4 true stories about programmers, geeks, and techies who labor in that sweetest of all workplaces, the space between the keyboard and the chair. Stories about:
• Surviving the job interview from hell
• Battling the office coffee machine
• Pranking other programmers
• Hunting down the mysterious bathroom snacker
• Enduring the office bully
• Debating the break room candy machine’s true yield
• Settling scores with a backstabber
• Making a splash at a going-away party
. . . were extracted from the author’s past, transformed into de-identifiable accounts, and loaded into this publication for your amusement.
So journey from the bowels of frigid data centers to the overcrowded cubicle farms of corporate America and meet some of the programming professionals who put their grubby, grimy, greasy fingers all over your data.
And some days you’re the zero.
But no matter what, computer programmers always do their bit.
In the real world of information technology, programmers can go from hero to zero in a nanosecond. Sometimes we are master pastry chefs, kneading, molding, and shaping fine data into intricate informational croquembouches for our clients’ consumption. But many of us work in organizations where our users, co-workers, and managers seem to be operating in states of perpetual stack overflow. So all too often, we are dung beetles—gathering, shaping, and rolling heaping piles of dirty data into balls of muck that are buried deep within corporate data stores.
This book contains 2**4 true stories about programmers, geeks, and techies who labor in that sweetest of all workplaces, the space between the keyboard and the chair. Stories about:
• Surviving the job interview from hell
• Battling the office coffee machine
• Pranking other programmers
• Hunting down the mysterious bathroom snacker
• Enduring the office bully
• Debating the break room candy machine’s true yield
• Settling scores with a backstabber
• Making a splash at a going-away party
. . . were extracted from the author’s past, transformed into de-identifiable accounts, and loaded into this publication for your amusement.
So journey from the bowels of frigid data centers to the overcrowded cubicle farms of corporate America and meet some of the programming professionals who put their grubby, grimy, greasy fingers all over your data.
