Clive Griffiths
Agenda Sparring Partner
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Clive Griffiths
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Office banter has fallen out of favour a bit with modern sensibilities.

Office banter has fallen out of favour a bit with modern sensibilities.

In my first IT job we (the professional systems engineers) referred to our sales team as 'reps' and the hardware engineers as 'fitters'.

I found this 'shop floor' teasing made work more like hanging out with mates. There was no malice, or harm done. We were on the same team with different strengths and perspectives.

What do you think they called us software engineers?

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