How to manage Geeks:

[Nagishkaw 510]

Are you.....experienced?

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

Targeting El Paso, Texas.

shite!

HEY dude! that was a compliment!

[HAL 9000 96]

Targeting El Paso, Texas.

shite!

HEY dude! that was a compliment!

What? You could be showered with cash. Consider it.

[DeadPoolX 9]

Targeting El Paso, Texas.

shite!

HEY dude! that was a compliment!

What? You could be showered with cash. Consider it.

Or it could be napalm.

[HAL 9000 96]

Targeting El Paso, Texas.

shite!

HEY dude! that was a compliment!

What? You could be showered with cash. Consider it.

Or it could be napalm.

Hmmm... cash with napalm... that could be an interesting combination.

[Jenn! 918]

Geeks hate management-speak and see it as superficial and dishonest. Managers shouldn't learn to speak tech, but they should drop the biz-buzzwords. A manager can say "We need to proactively impact our time-to-market" or simply use plain English and stick to "We gotta be on time with this project". The latter makes total sense to everyone involved.

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Don't try to be smarter than the geeks. When managers don't know anything about a technical question, they should simply admit it. Geeks respect them for that, but not for pretending to know. And they will catch it - geeks are smart.

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Include them in decisions. Never make decisions without consulting geeks. Geeks usually know the technical side of the business better than the manager, so making a technical decision without consulting them is one of the biggest mistakes a leader can make.

Seriously!

Get rid of the managers and let the geeks run things. My manager is a geek, so things are great.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Caveat: not all geeks are the same; take the time to know the ones you work with. And this article is not saying that all IT-people are geeks. Some are, some aren't.

This is how you manage geeks, but not all geeks, just some geeks, you have to figure out which geeks these tips work for and which they don't work for. Oh and by the way IT manager, this won't work for all your people either, just some of them. The geeky ones. And not even all the geeks, just some of the geeks. I wrote this huge long article pretending to shed light on your plight but really, I didn't do jacksh1t. I just took up a bunch of space. Yay me.

Know your geeks:

[DeadPoolX 9]

Caveat: not all geeks are the same; take the time to know the ones you work with. And this article is not saying that all IT-people are geeks. Some are, some aren't.

This is how you manage geeks, but not all geeks, just some geeks, you have to figure out which geeks these tips work for and which they don't work for. Oh and by the way IT manager, this won't work for all your people either, just some of them. The geeky ones. And not even all the geeks, just some of the geeks. I wrote this huge long article pretending to shed light on your plight but really, I didn't do jacksh1t. I just took up a bunch of space. Yay me.

Know your geeks:

What about "Message Board Geek"?

[Teacher Mark 53]

Geek porn.

[Ban Hammer 13,344]

Know your geeks:

oh jesus i sure hope platy doesn't look like cosplay geek

[DeadPoolX 9]

Know your geeks:

oh jesus i sure hope platy doesn't look like cosplay geek

Either that or the Furry Geek.

[NickD 203]

Geek, Nerd, Dork, Jerk, all four letter words.

Used to wear a pocket protector loaded with drafting pens, was functional to keep a white shirt, white, with a slide rule clipped to my belt. Slide rule was replaced with a slide rule calculator that always had dead batteries, but now that has been replaced with a cell phone, ha, again with a dead battery. With the advent of computers, the pocket protector went, and now carry a notebook, so now look like everybody else.

Wearing a pocket protector was a sign of respect, girls in production would go crazy, hey, there is a guy with brains, but now is made fun of, and that guy pushing a cart with earings, tatoos, and piercings is cool. But if they feel a moron is cool, they are also morons, rather mate with a gal that thinks a pocket protector is cool, least you will get kids with brains.

[Cherry&Ed 4]

...your post reminds me of the TV show, Ugly Betty (Betty La Fea)

[Cherry&Ed 4]

Caveat: not all geeks are the same; take the time to know the ones you work with. And this article is not saying that all IT-people are geeks. Some are, some aren't.

This is how you manage geeks, but not all geeks, just some geeks, you have to figure out which geeks these tips work for and which they don't work for. Oh and by the way IT manager, this won't work for all your people either, just some of them. The geeky ones. And not even all the geeks, just some of the geeks. I wrote this huge long article pretending to shed light on your plight but really, I didn't do jacksh1t. I just took up a bunch of space. Yay me.

Know your geeks:

ROFL

[Shad and Dani 3]

I'm an IT guy and far from a "geek". Hence my super hot financee! In fact I take offense to the term