Is it my imagination or are a disproportionate number of you guys, when compared with the unwashed masses :-

1. Working in the I.T industry or
2. Called Ian or
3. Both

Maybe I've just wandered into the twilight zone. http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/smile.gif

Cheers, Ian (I.T Bod)

P.S Sorry if this is off topic.

3 http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/smile.gif ROFLMAO

I haven't got a clue what your talking about

Cheers

Ian
IT Master
http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/biggrin.gif

WIth so many of us in IT makes you wonder why we haven't designed, built, programmed, debugged, issued Y2K patches for and announced the new improved version of a replacement ECU.

Ken

Xeon powered Suby??

Or twice as powerful Legacy G4 RSK perhaps ??


AllanB

Ian! who's that then? http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/wink.gif

Only IT managers can sit looking at Scoobynet all day without getting a roasting from the IT Manager! http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/wink.gif http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/wink.gif

Chris
Not in IT exactly, but can justify being on the net all day if I'm careful.

That's demographics for you - only IT people actually use the net, why do you think porn is the biggest web industry! http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/wink.gif

Steve

IT management...

only IT people where i work know how to use the net anyway http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/smile.gif

its good to be in control isn't it http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/smile.gif

its amazing how many drivers and patches need downloading to sort out users problems !

Steve
IT

At least I spell my name the correct way http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/wink.gif I work at a largish computer firm in Newbury, and there are at least 4 Scoobs (including mine). I went karting the other week with a team from work, (it was an I.T. themed race meet) and there must have been half a dozen of the things in the car park. I guess us I.T gurus just have impecable taste http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/biggrin.gif

Cheers,
Iain

Think you're right - does seem to be an IT thing (I get the feeling that there are a lot of petrolheads in the IT business).

At my (IT) firm we've got two Impreza turbos (we've also got a couple of TVRs and a T5 - we end up taking the TVR owners down to the garage when their cars break down http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/wink.gif).

C

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Our company are up to 4 turbos and a couple of sports with a least two more on the way. Company supplied cars are A4's, BMW's (don't park in Birmingham) and Mercs. I opted out, took the monthly allowance and got a real car. Its the BMW drivers that drool over the Scoobies the most.

Ken

Couldn't agree more Ken.

I do a lot of work with Motorola in Crawley. Their car park is full of the usual BM/Audi saloons. Guess who's car gets more comments than anyone else's? http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/biggrin.gif

And then some of us are just plain old Nerds.. http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/wink.gif

Richard
"Breaking software in Seattle" http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/biggrin.gif

You get paid far to much for doing far to little if you ask me.

I'm only jealous http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/smile.gif

50% wasn't a bad guess!

..IS

we've got 2 turbos where i work now as a m8 just bought a MY99 to add to MY00.

and another one up the road a bit at another office.

plus a sport and a legacy.

perhaps i better do a survey of the whole company and see how many turbos exist in an organisation of about 9000 employees ?

another turbo on the way i reckon as one of our IT contractors has been wanting one for a while to.

adds a bit of class to the lease cars cluttering up the car park..........astras, vectras, a3's and a4's

My names certainly not Ian, but I was a contractor and now I'm a Project Manager for a web-site solutions company...

What a perfect excuse for sitting on this BBS all day, eh?

All that and I can still afford to keep my MY99...As long as I don't eat !!!

Squizz (Starving!)

well i was a IT contractor so thats how i bought my new scoob.

now i've gone full time with the same company so i just afford to run it.

dont worry about eating squizz. as long as the scoobs running and you can go out driving in it thats all u need http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/biggrin.gif

Hey Steve, why on earth would you wish to go permie after contracting ????


(just interested as i have a company hassling me to do the same thing, the money's almost as good as contracting as well now !)

Does having Ian as a middle name count ??

Oh and I also do the IT thing as well

Nah, it's just cos IT = Information Technology and IT = Impreza Turbo http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/smile.gif

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by ptholt:
<B>Hey Steve, why on earth would you wish to go permie after contracting ????


(just interested as i have a company hassling me to do the same thing, the money's almost as good as contracting as well now !)[/quote]

IR35 ?!?!

Cheers, Ian

From my side its great that IT people are to busy surfing and miss all the intercompany porn and socially incorrect email/ attachment. How many were on Scoobynet when the last Virus Hit and missed it http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/tongue.gif

Jonathan

A typical Rep on the Road.

well pt, toward end of last yr my place were getting rid of lots and lots of IT contractors.

they'd been offering me a FT job for a while so i thought it was the time to say yes and negotiate a reasonable (but still very low compared to contracting) salary.

i'm too attached to living down here to want to go elsewhere and i've done my few years of being somewhere different 3 days of the week every week !

still it bought me a scoob and some other stuff so i'm not complaining.

if you being offered nearly the same to go permanent perhaps its worth it ? it was for me.

yeah IR35 didn't look good at the time neither so i made me choice and i'm happy.

My names not Ian but I work in IT......

As I am an eCommecre type, I need to spend all day lookng at the WEB coz its my job to have a sound undestanding of what people are doing on it!

An I am sat on a nic fast 2mb link.

Lovley.

I have a friend called Ian, does that count?

I work with Big Blues finest with good ole fashioned batch systems!

I have to spend all day on the net to, er, familiarise myself with new technology, yes that's it! http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/wink.gif

Geezer

Geezer,

I'm not your friend!!!

Yes yes I know, you mean't someone else ha-ha,

I'm an Ian, but I'm not in IT.

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/cool.gif

That hurts blubs.

The magic has gone, hasn't it? http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/frown.gif
Geezer (ex-friend)

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Geezer,

We may not have the 'magic', but you can still use me for sex http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/wink.gif