I seen a post by Sleeper on the reaction you get when you tell someone what your job is.
Well as some of you know I am an electrician and as soon as I say what I am the faulty lamps, kettles electric blankets and even ''body massagers'' would fly out from cupboards like something out of Mary Poppins. It was a pain in the arse.
Years ago I used to work on torpedoes and that was bliss.
Nobody had an old Mk24 locked away in the cupboard that required a new homing system, all you got was ''that sounds inetresting and if asked to talk about it you just said ''official secrets''
On the torpedo job, if any of the young guys were heard using the torpedo story to chat someone up they were slagged off and their names put on the notice board as a fully qualified torpedo doctor.
Any stories about your job.
ALadInsane
I work in the video games industry for one of the big 3. Have been for nearly 7 years now. When I first started I was a tester. Whenever I told people what I did EVERY SINGLE ONE would ask "So do you just sit around playing games all day?" It's the bane of all games testers being asked that and it was too laborious to go into the various stages of development, sitting for hours working on collision detection and other such things so you found yourself resigning to just simply answering "Yes".
I've moved through the ranks and my testing days are long since behind me, but as with your workmates being vilified for their torpedo doctor chat up line, a cardinal sin amongst testers would be when trying to impress at a party, rather than say "I'm a tester," they'd be heard to say "I'm a games designer." a total no no.
Nowadays, all I get asked is if I can get the console or games we publish either a) free by the really hardfaced people or b) cheap, particularly around Christmas time.