What's Up With IT Guys and Hawaiian Shirts?

[Viking Kitten]

Ah, the joys of Spring. And we always know Spring has sprung when the IT dudes bust out the Hawaiian shirts.

Perhaps I should inform them "Mele Kalikimaka" is the Hawaiian way to say "Merry Christmas." Then they could wear their Hawaiian shirts all year round.
Is this just our IT guys or is this universal? :norm: ? PQ? What say you? :confused:

[SoonerInKCMO]

No Hawaiian shirts on our floor of 100 IT geeks. Guess you're just lucky.

[Oldnslo]

Is this a good time to say that I wear all manner of Tommy Bahama shirts?

[Viking Kitten]

Last year they all showed up in Hawaiian shirts one day. I just happened to have some leis in my office from an earlier office party. We took a couple down and placed them around their necks as if to say "aloha."

They did not seem amused.

But hey... don't get me wrong. I have nothing against Hawaiian shirts. I've just never seen so many worn en masse outside.. y'know... Hawaii.

[IB4OU2]

I'm thinking our IT guys have never had a leis.........

[yermom]

around here it was the Cisco/network guys

[slickdawg]

Most the IT types do it every Friday. I choose not to participate.

[bri]

Last year they all showed up in Hawaiian shirts one day. I just happened to have some leis in my office from an earlier office party. We took a couple down and placed them around their necks as if to say "aloha."


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Tonight, at The Pit....EVERYONE GETS LEI'D!

[mrowl]

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[crawfish]

Because it's the only way they stand a chance of getting lei'd.

If you're gonna steal my post, do it right. :mad:

[IB4OU2]

If you're gonna steal my post, do it right. :mad:

:O :D

[Ike]

the hawaiian shirt is the IT guys way of saying "silly user, I care not what you think"

[Stoop Dawg]

I'm not technically I.T., but these are funny (but true) anyway:

(emphasis added by me)



01. When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and children's art. We don't have a life, and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.

02. Don't write anything down. Ever. We can play back the error messages from here.

03. When an I.T. person says he's coming right over, go for coffee. That way you won't be there when we need your password. It's nothing for us to remember 700 screen saver passwords.

04. When you call the help desk, state what you want, not what's keeping you from getting it. We don't need to know that you can't get into your mail because your computer won't power on at all.

05. When I.T. support sends you an E-Mail with high importance, delete it at once. We're just testing.

06. When an I.T. person is eating lunch at his desk, walk right in and spill your guts right out. We exist only to serve.

07. Send urgent email all in uppercase. The mail server picks it up and flags it as a rush delivery.

08. When the photocopier doesn't work, call computer support. There's electronics in it.

09. When something's wrong with your home PC, dump it on an I.T. person's chair with no name, no phone number and no description of the problem. We love a puzzle.

10. When an I.T. person tells you that computer screens don't have cartridges in them, argue. We love a good argument.

11. When an I.T. person tells you that he'll be there shortly, reply in a scathing tone of voice: "And just how many weeks do you mean by shortly?" That motivates us.

12. When the printer won't print, re-send the job at least 20 times. Print jobs frequently get sucked into black holes.

13. When the printer still won't print after 20 tries, send the job to all 68 printers in the company. One of them is bound to work.

14. Don't learn the proper term for anything technical. We know exactly what you mean by "My thingy blew up".

15. Don't use on-line help. On-line help is for wimps.

And yes, I realize this has nothing to do with hawaiian shirts.

[Viking Kitten]

Most the IT types do it every Friday. I choose not to participate.

YES! EXACTLY! It's usually every Friday. I just knew there was no way our IT guys were alone in this.