[geeks] What desk toy or "tchotchke" says "geek" to you?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 @ 01:17 -0600, Bill Bradford said:

> At the Austin office of $WORK, they had to make a "no guns at work" rule
> because 3/4ths of the programming staff (which was pretty much the 
> entire staff) had concealed-carry licenses. 8-)

Same here, only at InfiNet in Norfolk, Virginia.

There were several people on the technical staff who were armed, and even a
couple of people on the helpdesk.

Then one day someone made a big stink about people being armed, so the company
overreacted and outlawed firearms.

Quite a few people bitched about the rule, more than I would have thought at
the time.

Other people were like, "You mean people are carrying guns here?"

It scared the hell out of marketing... :)

I really don't think many people obeyed the rules. It was kind of hard to
enforce, because two vice presidents and one of the cofounders were armed.

So unofficially, no one was ever bothered about it, at least that I knew
of.

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shannon "AT" widomaker.com -- ["Star Wars Moral Number 17: Teddy bears are
dangerous in herds."]