People are surprised that the credit insurance industry is alive and kicking..

I work for an energy company. No, I don't get a freaking discount.

Marysue: That phone sex workers are all fat old women with sexy voices.

I have it on good authority that some phone sex workers are gay men who sound like women. :)

ignatius_crumbcake: robinmi: I'm a lawyer, and we're generally loved and respected. I'm not aware of any particular myths.

This. We are more loved than firefighters.

We also on more calendars.

All rockstar/neurosurgeon/super heroes are from the 8th dimension.

That people's contributions to particular charitable organizations pay my salary. They
do, but only indirectly.

Most of my salary comes from corporate grants and rich widows.

res_nihil: All rockstar/neurosurgeon/super heroes are from the 8th dimension.

RexTalionis: ignatius_crumbcake: robinmi: I'm a lawyer, and we're generally loved and respected. I'm not aware of any particular myths.

This. We are more loved than firefighters.

We also on more calendars.

Simulpost.

vernterv: I work for an energy company. No, I don't get a freaking discount.

And, trust me, if I could get my lights back on before you I would!

People think that my job is exactly like the movie Office Space.

Unfortunately, my job is exactly like the movie Office Space.

Our work isn't that hard. So let's lump more work on them!

nekom: That it's difficult. It would be if you didn't know what you were doing, actually it would be downright impossible. But when you have the background, it's a gravy job.

/IT

It is, totally. I wouldn't want to do any other job in the world. IT, as you said, when you know your shiat, is a gravy job. We get paid well for our expertise, however, because people who try to do this job who don't know their shiat can really mess things up and cost a company a fortune in downtime and lost data. I've seen plenty of examples of this.

RubyRed: rostit: EVERY Engineer should know how to solder.

Even my daughter knows how to solder...

She is damn good at it too!

CoolBeans: meg12279: I don't know. My youngest brother is an engineer, and while he is brilliant in his field, he is a flat-out retard about common sense stuff. He's the kind of kid who could rewire your whole house to operate off of one remote and will probably cure strokes one day, but may not quite remember to wear pants outside. The other day I had to pull him out of traffic, he was just wandering around looking at tall buildings like Fievel.

/checks for pants

*whew*!

Engineer here. Does anyone else actually check for pants too? Usually in the morning when I'm going in somewhere to get a cup of coffee.

*I put on pants right? Ok good*

Al_Ed: vernterv: I work for an energy company. No, I don't get a freaking discount.

And, trust me, if I could get my lights back on before you I would!

That's a valid point there too.

Marysue: Who do you think does Uhura?

Who does Tribbles??

* * * * *

Regarding my previous job, all I can say is, working for a PBS affiliate isn't all it's cracked up to be.

nutkick_42: Why is it they always want me to re-solder a circuit board? Why don't they ever want me to drive a train? If somebody came up to me and said, "Hey, you're an engineer, come drive this train," I wouldn't argue. I would do everything I could to try to figure out how to drive that farking train.

+1

Network Admin

If it plugs into a wall, I should be able to fix it. This includes printers, telephones, fax machines, coffee makers, fans, and lights.

My Brother is an Organic Chemist.

Yet, when the storm was coming he wanted to bury a length of perforated corrugated pipe to keep the water from soaking the area around his foundation. He didnt seem to get that if there are HOLES in the pipe, then the water will still soak the ground. Solid Corrugated pipe was used.

sems740: People think that my job is exactly like the movie Office Space.

Unfortunately, my job is exactly like the movie Office Space.

No, I have not read every book in the whole wide world.

Nope, I don't recall that book you read in 1998, even if was red and about so-thick and it had that guy in it who did that thing with those other guys and then they met that woman and it might've been set in London. Or in the future. Or in the past.

Not all librarians are ugly repressed spinsters with no dress-sense and sensible spectacles, just the majority of us.

There hasn't been a ball pit in a Chuck E. Cheese's for years.

We're going green!

KingoftheCheese: There hasn't been a ball pit in a Chuck E. Cheese's for years.

That is a travesty. Why would they get rid of it?

moogrum: KingoftheCheese: There hasn't been a ball pit in a Chuck E. Cheese's for years.

That is a travesty. Why would they get rid of it?

More germs than balls.

Paralegals are uneducated people who couldn't get into law school if they tried. Government employees are lazy. Support staff is obviously retarded and you should treat them as such.

Solty Dog: Network Admin

If it plugs into a wall, I should be able to fix it. This includes printers, telephones, fax machines, coffee makers, fans, and lights.

this is essentially my job.

My title is "tech services manager", which is a fancy name for "The guy who can do the stuff we need that no one else knows how to do".

I built our server rack and designed/installed the phone system. Coordinated the Alarm system, manage the website, QC for incoming products, Support for customers installs, Liason to vendors for when products need changes, PCI compliance, Product photographer, Projector Repair, Lamp/Bulb troubleshooting, IT, Solar Power system coordinator and last but not least, back up warehouse and OPS manager...

f*ck. I think I need more money after reading that.

drmda: No, I am NOT the most important person in the operating room!

Uh are you the surgeon?

John Paul Jones: Umm... all house foundation drains are made with perf pipe.

Only once its away form the foundation. Not AT the foundation. He was getting soaked ground by his foundation and it was flooding the basement. He was going to install the pipe inthe same place the water was pooling. The house is by a storm runoff creek, so the pipe was run to the outfall of the creek.

but you knew that since your such a f*cking genius.

PrivateCaboose: drmda: No, I am NOT the most important person in the operating room!

Uh are you the surgeon?

Or a professional patient?

rostit: My Brother is an Organic Chemist.

CSB:

My roommate in college took an organic chemistry class. One night, he was studying and couldn't wrap his mind around some concept. I took one look at it, and correctly answered "Deuterium"

He asked how I knew that, and I replied "Because that's what the Enterprise uses to fuel the anti-matter reactor"

single entendre: KingoftheCheese: More germs than balls.

So pretty much like every TFer.

lulz