Ramble On

Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Tech Staff

(apologies to Willie and Waylon)

Users ain’t easy to like, the printer’s broken again
We’d rather go back to DOS, than have them login
Hacked windows machines, sharing 8 mile
Already fixed ten times today
Well, they don’t understand it, an’ this ain’t much fun
Why don’t they just go away

Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be tech staff
Don’t let ‘em write perl scripts or install linux
Let ‘em be lawyers, politicians, or such
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be tech staff
‘Cos they’ll never go home, they’ll feel like a drone
And their brains turn into mush

Tech Staff like hidden server rooms, and clear Remedy queues
Matrix parodies and arguing about pico/vi
Those that aren’t like them, don’t understand them but still
There’s times when they’re needed
It ain’t broke, it’s just different, just stand back and let them
They’ll do the things to make it alright

Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be tech staff
Don’t let ‘em write perl scripts or install linux
Let ‘em be lawyers, politicians, or such
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be tech staff
‘Cos they’ll never go home, they’ll feel like a drone
And their brains turn into mush