The IT Cave

Every company has one. That room where the "IT people" live. It may have been born of the need to segregate early IT types from the rest of the company as they scared all the marketing girls and tended to be really messy.

It grew into part of the fabric of IT culture. IT people work in the IT room where all their "stuff" is, piled up to the ceiling where if you look at it, you can notice the strata representing the history of computers.

It also came from the "need" of IT people to stay away from constant drive-by requests that made it nearly impossible to get work done. So, rather than meeting those challenges head on, we retreated into caves, taking our junk with us, never to be seen again.

I personally dont think IT people should work in IT caves, it only reinforces antisocial stereotypes and an us & them attitude but it will be a long time before most of us come out from the caves into the sunlight.