Does anyone who works in Programming or IT not routinely curse at computers while fixing problems?

[Marissa Moira]

I mean honestly it's been scientifically proven to help you focus. Pretty sure an episode of Mythbusters did it.

 

[Gorgar]

They don’t. But they somehow talk to ducks mainly due to them being complete virgins.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

I work principally in software development (engineering?), so most of any swearing I do is directed at myself for forgetting to compile some unit or mistakenly making some logic error because most of the issues I face are going to be someone's fault rather than due to a computer betraying my expectations of it being a perfect machine.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

I'm always talking to myself whenever I'm fixing shit. Helps me think better.

 

[Bongocat]

During the beginning I did, but after a while you just kind of adjust to computers fucking up as a universal constant.

After that, you just sigh a lot. Things going well is a pleasant surprise.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Just pray to the Omnissiah and make sure the machine spirits are happy.

 

[Tims]

Similar to other posts in this thread i used too alot when i first started, now its just a sinking feeling when some obscure never before seen programme crashes a production server due to some shitty update pushed out by microshit.

 

[Delta Integrale]

I curse myself for not trying harder in school and ending up in this job.

 

[Uncle Sid]

I'm a copy editor so I routinely curse at writers as I fix their problems.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

At first you curse the retarded computer and the fucking stupid OS and the shit code, then you curse yourself when it turned out to be the SATA cable again and should've known

 

[Ed Special]

At first you curse the retarded computer and the fucking stupid OS and the shit code, then you curse yourself when it turned out to be the SATA cable again and should've known

And then once you're fucking done with that, it crashes and after thee goddamned hours of trying to figure out what the hell else went wrong, you throw a Hail Mary and reseat the RAM and damned if that doesn't fix it every single time.