I've got three Jim'll Paint It t-shirts which I wear to work regularly. But, I work in academia so it's dress as you wish mostly.
Am I a Dinasour - Office Environments?
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Bob Fleming
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I just started a new contract this week at a place where the IT department use 'Agile'. Everyone is part of a 'Scrum' and each one has its own team name. When you find out that the team names are things like 'The Beserkers', 'The Night Watch' and 'Red Squadron', it doesn't take a genius to work out that the programmers have been given a say. It's not doing much for the image of It staff when team names like this just screams nerdy-virgins.
Oh aye and apparently at 'scrum stand-ups' you have to be holding the Yoda cuddly toy to be allowed to speak.
F'kin awesome
Ah fuck that's hilarious.
SPUFF
Striker
I just started a new contract this week at a place where the IT department use 'Agile'. Everyone is part of a 'Scrum' and each one has its own team name. When you find out that the team names are things like 'The Beserkers', 'The Night Watch' and 'Red Squadron', it doesn't take a genius to work out that the programmers have been given a say. It's not doing much for the image of It staff when team names like this just screams nerdy-virgins.
Oh aye and apparently at 'scrum stand-ups' you have to be holding the Yoda cuddly toy to be allowed to speak.
F'kin awesome
Dear me!
Take a goat into the scrum!
TheWanderer
Striker
I'm beginning to think i should maybes start looking outside of IT to apply my project management and service delivery skills!I just started a new contract this week at a place where the IT department use 'Agile'. Everyone is part of a 'Scrum' and each one has its own team name. When you find out that the team names are things like 'The Beserkers', 'The Night Watch' and 'Red Squadron', it doesn't take a genius to work out that the programmers have been given a say. It's not doing much for the image of It staff when team names like this just screams nerdy-virgins.
Oh aye and apparently at 'scrum stand-ups' you have to be holding the Yoda cuddly toy to be allowed to speak.
F'kin awesome
Or at least go down the contracting route so I can do short spells at these places testing the water rather than go full employment.
dangermows
Striker
Miserable git, nobody wears suits, shirts etc now generally unless its for meetings. Everyone here wears jeans, polo shirt etc and its a much better working environment.
This
Spennymackem1981
Winger
sounds class to me, we cant even have the f***ing blinds open...The free tea and coffee tastes like piss,
on the plus side we have a cafe...you can wear casual i much prefer to sit in jeans trainers and a polo than suits n shit....
on the plus side we have a cafe...you can wear casual i much prefer to sit in jeans trainers and a polo than suits n shit....
TheWanderer
Striker
Shorts and t-shirts allowed?Miserable git, nobody wears suits, shirts etc now generally unless its for meetings. Everyone here wears jeans, polo shirt etc and its a much better working environment.
And do you have so much spare time on your hands to fuck about on the ping pong table?
dangermows
Striker
I just started a new contract this week at a place where the IT department use 'Agile'. Everyone is part of a 'Scrum' and each one has its own team name. When you find out that the team names are things like 'The Beserkers', 'The Night Watch' and 'Red Squadron', it doesn't take a genius to work out that the programmers have been given a say. It's not doing much for the image of It staff when team names like this just screams nerdy-virgins.
Oh aye and apparently at 'scrum stand-ups' you have to be holding the Yoda cuddly toy to be allowed to speak.
F'kin awesome
Agile is absolutely shite and designed by buzz word wankers.
Lewberry pie
Striker
Think in some cases this is a perfect environment for creative solutions.
I went for a nurse job last week and they asked me what my vision would be for the health service generally and I said that at the minute non emergency treatment is still done in the same way of my job interview, which is sort of the point in a job interview when you're being assessed about how you present yourself but it's not gonna work if a gp wants to extract some important information from a 50 year old bloke who's suffering anxiety problems but can't bring himself to ask for help.
I went for a nurse job last week and they asked me what my vision would be for the health service generally and I said that at the minute non emergency treatment is still done in the same way of my job interview, which is sort of the point in a job interview when you're being assessed about how you present yourself but it's not gonna work if a gp wants to extract some important information from a 50 year old bloke who's suffering anxiety problems but can't bring himself to ask for help.
SPUFF
Striker
sounds class to me, we cant even have the f***ing blinds open...The free tea and coffee tastes like piss,
on the plus side we have a cafe...you can wear casual i much prefer to sit in jeans trainers and a polo than suits n shit....[/QUOTE
I just started a new contract this week at a place where the IT department use 'Agile'. Everyone is part of a 'Scrum' and each one has its own team name. When you find out that the team names are things like 'The Beserkers', 'The Night Watch' and 'Red Squadron', it doesn't take a genius to work out that the programmers have been given a say. It's not doing much for the image of It staff when team names like this just screams nerdy-virgins.
Oh aye and apparently at 'scrum stand-ups' you have to be holding the Yoda cuddly toy to be allowed to speak.
F'kin awesome
I used to work in a team that adopted the stand up meetings of agile but nothing else. They work in that people tend not to talk for bloody ages. We didn't have a Yoda cuddly toy though.
What I find amusing about 'Agile' is the complete zealots who believe that you have to obey the rules of 'Agile' completely when the whole bloody point is supposed to be flexibility.
nyron4england
Striker
if it makes you feel better, i still wore a suit and tie when i worked for a start up. you never know who you're gonna bump into. my firm is similar to what you describe; go to work to graft and when you finish, work is done until tomorrow.
Spennymackem1981
Winger
I just started a new contract this week at a place where the IT department use 'Agile'. Everyone is part of a 'Scrum' and each one has its own team name. When you find out that the team names are things like 'The Beserkers', 'The Night Watch' and 'Red Squadron', it doesn't take a genius to work out that the programmers have been given a say. It's not doing much for the image of It staff when team names like this just screams nerdy-virgins.
Oh aye and apparently at 'scrum stand-ups' you have to be holding the Yoda cuddly toy to be allowed to speak.
F'kin awesome
fuck me are they all fat and have beards......whats with IT nerds and beards you can tell they are not getting no sex...Nee lass likes getting her honey pot getting licked out with a full bush chafing on her lips
Spennymackem1981
Winger
aye mate madness aint it
Lewberry pie
Striker
Sounds class that, were you allowed to have a shower with them? Would my dog see it as cheating is the key question like.
Posh/ODvM
Central Defender
Don't say that to the 'Scrum Master' there feller. You'll never make the grade in Red Squadron.
where else you meant to fuck them?
They have days where a little circus comes to the office, ferris wheels, candy floss machines, clowns etc.
TheWanderer
Striker
Dixy Chicken supplies the uniform though dont they?
You're taking the piss!
Tommasi
Striker
I'm a professional mate .
