So which one are you? Not sure? Then go ahead and take this personality quiz and let us know what the results are.
Somehow, it tagged me with a split personality of ‘The Empty Suit’ and the ‘OS Fanboy.’
Here are the descriptions if you’re too chicken to take the test first…
1. The Empty Suit
Hired to be a liaison between top-level management and the techies — with whom top-level management, or anyone on the business side, would rather not deal directly. Acts as a go-between during client visits to keep the geeks at a safe distance. Has memorized most of the important acronyms and mastered the art of nodding knowingly in meetings and then surfing Wikipedia afterward to find out what everyone was talking about. May possess an MBA from a dubious online university.
2. The Scary Sys Admin
Your company can’t run without him — and he knows it. Fortunately, he likes dealing with machines far more than people, so you can rest easy, confident that he spends way more time keeping your systems up and running than may even be necessary. Friends? Who needs friends? That’s why God invented computers.
3. The Human Roadblock
No matter what task or project is presented, the Human Roadblock responds in exactly the same manner: It can’t be done. This is then followed by a painfully detailed list of all the reasons why this task or project will cost too much, deliver too little, and can’t be implemented in anything resembling the proposed time frame. And, oh yeah: It was a stupid idea to begin with.
4. The Angry Support Drone
Hired to schlep from desk to desk fixing the computers of people deemed unworthy of their time. Will do what you ask, and not one iota more. Know more than you do about computers — a point they manage to work into virtually every conversation — but not really interested in sharing useful information. Might otherwise be flipping burgers if they could be trusted to handle sharp instruments around other humans.
5. The Uber Geek
Fiercely intelligent, stubbornly logical, and disturbingly anti-social. In other words, what most people think of when asked to describe a techie. In Myers-Briggs nomenclature, the Übergeek would be classified INTJ — an introverted, intuitive-thinking, and judging person — says Beth Armknecht Miller, co-founder of Executive Velocity, a professional coaching service. If the Übergeek absolutely must communicate with beings of inferior intelligence (i.e., you), she would rather do it by e-mail. But if she can avoid all human contact, that’s OK, too.
6. The OS Fanboy
There is only one true path — and, more important, only one true operating system — for this person. All nonbelievers are heretics whose tech needs will be quietly ignored. Though most commonly associated with Apple products, often aligned with Windows or, more likely, Linux — the more obscure the distro, the better. Every conversation ends with a discussion of why their OS of choice is superior, despite the fact that your company doesn’t use it. Actually solving your problem with the OS at hand is an afterthought.
7. The Promiser
There is nothing this person won’t say to close a deal. You want features the original product was never designed to deliver? Done. You need it within six months? The Promiser will get it to you in three. Of course, he or she doesn’t have to deliver anything — that’s a job for the developers. Delays, cost overruns, and impossible feature-set requirements are all someone else’s headache. On the Insights Discovery Wheel, the Promiser would fall into the “Fiery Red” quadrant.
8. The Shadow
It’s not my problem, it’s not my job, it’s not my fault — that’s the mantra of the Shadow, who somehow manages to take up space in the IT department (and on the payroll) without actually filling it. No one’s sure what the Shadow does, mostly because he or she has become expert at doing as little as possible. Over time, the Shadow may be handed management responsibilities, at which point this individual morphs into the Human Roadblock.
Check out the full article as it goes into more detail, revealing the personality’s favorite books, their role models, accomplishments and identifying marks.
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