# The IT group here

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-it-group-here/625768>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 20, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-it-group-here/625768 "2012-06-20T17:39:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-it-group-here/625768/81 "2012-06-22T18:54:23Z")

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> [@mischievous](#):
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> _ETA: And this is a government agency, where everyone is supposed to be inefficient and unhelpful. No one at my workplace got that memo._

It’s nice to see the stereotype that I created in my mind busted. Some of the most miserable\* people I ever met were IT for local government agencies.

Miserable as in “forlorn,” not miserable as in “despicable.”

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