There are at least three levels of technical support at my work: the official one, the computing teachers and me. Which means that I get heightened, but not global, permissions. I get these because I can fix, and do, things that others can't.
People have now forgotten that I shouldn't have these permissions, they've lost-track of which parts of the process are owned by me and they never consider that I have way too much access to things that I shouldn't have.
Because I work they've let me in. And when you're in you can always get more in. Especially when you have a lot of hard-access and the ability to craft tools.
I knew that they'd do this, I planned it thus. Humans just seem to behave this way; they trust you when it suits their purposes; i.e. make their lives easier.
All I really wanted was that if there were going to be decisions made that would affect me, then I wanted to make them. Of course, this wasn't always possible, sometimes decisions don't involve computers [the human part of me deals with that side] and I often have to take-on crap-tasks that I don't really want to ensure my enigma. Still, needs must.
I'm fairly benign: I have zero-interest in other peoples' lives, all I want is to control mine.
But last week I saw some tell-tales that someone else was doing a me. She seems to be interested in others' lives.
The big question in my head at the moment is, does she know that I'm in here too? And whether she does know or not, what am I going to do?
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I'd be very worried about she especially as job security is so dicey these days. You'll need to keep looking over your shoulder.
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All progammers call other progammers she even if they are he. And there's no way that I've done this in my real job!
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(I googled!)
Is it because the first computer programmer was a woman (Ada Lovelace), so all are called she in honour of her?
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Yes.