# Geekiness in the workplace **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekiness-in-the-workplace/437286 "2008-02-12T15:15:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekiness-in-the-workplace/437286/21 "2008-02-12T21:36:55Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] Not necessarily. I was born a geek, but I didn’t know what a Tardis was until just a few years ago. Do you know what a Veritech is? Jenova? Wave Motion Gun? Tanooki Suit? [/QUOTE] Veritech? Would that be the VF-1A, VF-1S, VF-1J, or the VF-1 Armored ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekiness-in-the-workplace/437286/22 "2008-02-12T21:38:18Z")
At the coffee station in the lab someone posted the “It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion” thing for a while, and I bet not many people recognized that. There’s an outbox in the engineering department’s mail room that’s labeled “TPS Reports”. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekiness-in-the-workplace/437286/23 "2008-02-12T21:43:04Z")
Our IT guy is the Anti-Geek. I was sitting next to him at a particularly long and annoying employee meeting. As our eyes were rolling out of my head during the marketing presentation, I leaned over and muttered “why oh why didn’t I take the blue pill?” He looked confused and asked me if that was some sort of movie reference. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekiness-in-the-workplace/437286/24 "2008-02-12T21:53:53Z")
I’m so ungeeky… [_How ungeeky are you?_] I’m so ungeeky, I didn’t even know servers HAD names! Do they come when they’re called? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekiness-in-the-workplace/437286/25 "2008-02-12T21:57:38Z")
[QUOTE=Mrs. Cake] Our IT guy is the Anti-Geek. I was sitting next to him at a particularly long and annoying employee meeting. As our eyes were rolling out of my head during the marketing presentation, I leaned over and muttered “why oh why didn’t I take the blue pill?” He looked confused and asked me if that was some sort of movie reference. Oh well. [/QUOTE] It’s a little startling to encounter a non-geeky technical person, isn’t it? In the last place I worked we had a VP of engineering who honestly didn’t understand the reference to “warp speed” that someone used during a presentation. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekiness-in-the-workplace/437286/26 "2008-02-12T22:14:48Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] I’m so ungeeky… [_How ungeeky are you?_] I’m so ungeeky, I didn’t even know servers HAD names! Do they come when they’re called? 😕 [/QUOTE] That depends on your level of access. But yeah, every computer on a network, including servers, needs a unique identifier so that they can talk to each other properly. Huge corporations use boring things like “ca-oak3-f15” that follow some sort of standard naming convention. This hypothetical example would be shorthand for, “Oakland, CA, office #3, 15th floor”. Whereas a video game companies tend to name their computers all kinds of obscure geeky things. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekiness-in-the-workplace/437286/27 "2008-02-12T22:19:04Z")
> [@](#): > > I suppose it’s better than our last project name, which was “Medusa”. I’m not sure if the manager actually realized he was naming his project after a Gorgon, or if he just thought the name had a nice classical ring. What’s wrong with **Medusa**? I LIKE Medusa! Our company’s geeky, too. We’re engineers – we’re _supposed_ to be Geeks. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekiness-in-the-workplace/437286/28 "2008-02-13T00:24:28Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] The names of the members of the band The Mosquitoes, from an episode of _Gilligan’s Island_ which lampooned rock bands, specifically, the Beatles. [/QUOTE] We have a winner! ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekiness-in-the-workplace/437286/29 "2008-02-13T00:56:36Z")
Actually, not being into the newer Star Treks, I figured the OP’s server name was “beta zed”, making it the 50th server (Greek then Roman letter), with a British flair. [QUOTE=gotpasswords] I’m a little worried about the group that has servers named: dulles, ohare, skyharbor - airports they’ve been to? [/QUOTE] Our IT guy named all the Mac wireless airports like this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekiness-in-the-workplace/437286.md?page=1)