I found that article very informative, particularly the part about developers working overtime in return for pizza and t-shirts.
Prior to this, I had always been satisfied just with the pizza. I had no idea I could bargain for shirts as well. Henceforth, I will not sell my time for mere pepperoni.

heh I finally read your article because of a lull at the orifice. I really did not expect to be qouted. I crack myself up.

one objection though. I am totally 100% mercenary. All jokes aside.

I can only speak for myself...I need a quiet place to work and I don't like it when non-techies (like project managers) sit close to me and have little ad-hoc meetings in their cubes.

Also, for the love of pickles...why are some cubes built so that you can feel every vibration in every cube that touches it? STOP THAT. A lot of us are half Rain Man and we don't like that. I certainly don't; I find it distracting to feel the vibrations of the "energetic" project manager next door banging his fists on his desk.

The cat/geek comparison was good. I agree with a lot of it.

The cat comparison seems to apply to most management-employee setups. I'm not in the IT business but the concepts still apply in my workplace. =)

I'll take your word for it; I've been an IT body my whole career since I graduated from college. Love this field. LOVE IT.

Just curious...why is someone not in the "IT business"
slumming around on a database forum?

(S)He's a grammar teacher on his\ her first Access db project (based on stuff gleaned from other posts).

pootle flump ur codings are working excelent.

Thanks Poots...I was going to go through the other posts like that too, but was too damn lazy.