So I work in a large corporation’s IT research and development team. It’s a very well paid job, my input is valued, and it’s a lot of fun. And I got there by dropping out of a psychology degree after first year! It should be obvious to everybody that even if you don’t go into the IT industry, you’ll still need to deal with IT people regularly in just about all walks of life – professionally and at home. Therefore, I thought it would help to give you 10 tips about IT people. Maybe if I grease your IT wheels now there’ll be less friction when you become just another corporate cog.

So here we go.

1. We really do want to fix the problem!
Helpdesk is a bitch of a job; that’s why I moved in to R&D. But regardless of what an IT person does, he or she is still in the