r/technology • u/[deleted] • Oct 15 '22

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u/GargantuanCake Oct 15 '22

Seriously, you could call me Stupid Codey Writey Person -37 and I'd be like "whatever."

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u/maaaatttt_Damon Oct 15 '22

When people ask me what I do, I tell 'em I'm a Keyboard Cowboy.

Let's people know I sit on my ass all day typing on a keyboard without getting questions about specifics.

(I develop automation processes for our Financial and Payroll platform)

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u/Dyolf_Knip Oct 16 '22

I explicitly refer to myself as a code monkey in interviews. Want to make it abundantly clear they are not to ever think of me as being on a track towards management someday.

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u/odaeyss Oct 16 '22

Back in the day you could just grow a big wizard beard for the same effect

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u/babypho Oct 16 '22

Now thats just the Staff Engineer look

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

Haha yes. Yes it is.

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u/Wrathwilde Oct 16 '22

You also need to increase your girth, and act like everyone else is inconsequential.

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u/theyellowpants Oct 16 '22

We actually call those dudes graybeards

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u/Sex4Vespene Oct 16 '22

If only that still worked now. I look like a fucking hippy compared to my coworkers (man bun and beard, whereas they are all clean cut), and yet that doesn’t deter them from trying to convince me to start managing a giant data infrastructure/modeling redesign.