Check out a fun look of the professionals who should sit next to you and that make up the technology department of your company.

The labor market usually has three personality types: Type A, Type B and Type IT (Information Technology). This well away from the rest. The Computerworld U.S. identified eight classical types of personalities that are found in most IT departments.

Many of them - almost all - are in a cubicle next to his workplace at the moment. Consider it a guide to "fauna and flora" of his life's work.

1. The empty suit
Positions: department manager, business analyst
Profile: Hired to be a link between senior management and technicians. Acts as an intermediary during customer visits. Decorated the most important acronyms and mastered the art of nodding knowingly at meetings and then navigate through Wikipedia to find out about what he was talking about. In some cases, may have a diploma or certificate from an institution online dubious.

Hobbies: Track beginners
Last book read: "The Cluetrain Manifesto"
Biggest achievement: Losing purposely golf games for the C-level executives
Outstanding features: Imitation cheap clothes
Idol: Michael Dell
It's like Michael Scott (Steve Carrel) of the TV series "The Office"

2. The system administrator's scary
Job: Network Administrator, Database Administrator.
Profile: The company does not work without it - and he knows it. Fortunately, this professional to handle more like machines than people, so you can stay calm and confident because he spends more time than necessary to maintain the active systems.

Hobbies: Making certificates, writing subroutines safety nets to protect binary data from industry
Last book read: "The Complete Book of Dirty Tricks" (Get Even: The Complete Book of Dirty Tricks)
Biggest achievement: She kept the entire network hostage by refusing to provide the passwords for the "Empty Suit"
Hallmarks: an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs
Idol: Terry Childs (former network administrator in the U.S. who gained notoriety by blocking access to a network in San Francisco, USA)
It's like: Terry Childs

3. The human barricade
Job: Software developer, enterprise architect, system administrator.
Profile: Regardless of the project or task presented, the "human barricade" always responds the same way: it is not possible. The answer is followed by a painfully detailed list of all the reasons why the project will cost a lot, have low income or can not be integrated in the time required. And, of course, was a bad idea from the beginning.

Hobbies: Complaining
Last book read: "Hate This Place: The Guide to Life Pessimistic" (I Hate This Place: The Pessimist's Guide to Life).
Biggest accomplishment: Not having done nothing since 1979
Outstanding features: knit shirt with a collar, khakis and still carries a slide rule
Idol: The character Eeyore, the donkey in the animated film "Winnie the Pooh"
More looks like: The paranoid android Marvin, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

4. The Angry Hornet Support
Designation: Technical Support
Profile: Contractor to walk from table to table repairing computer s of people who seem not worth your time. Do what you ask and nothing more. Do you know more than you about computers - something he can taste it in every conversation - but is not interested in sharing information.

Hobbies: Guns, shootings, random acts of violence
Last book read: "What Color Is Your Parachute?" (What Color is Your Parachute?)
Biggest accomplishment: Death triple play Halo
Outstanding features: Nike shoes and permanent frown, 1982
Idol: William "D-fens" Foster (Michael Douglas) in "Falling Down"
More looks like: Milton Waddams (Stephen Root) in "Office Space"

5. The Supernerd

Job: Software Engineer, Senior Programmer.
Profile: intelligent, logical and anti-social, or, in other words, what most people think of a professional. The Supernerd can be classified as introverted, with intuitive thinking and judging character. If he needs to communicate with beings of inferior intelligence (eg you) prefer to do so by email.

Hobbies: What are these things called hobbies?
Last book read: "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" (Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software)
Biggest accomplishment: completely rewrite and analyze each line of code in a system without anyone having noticed
Outstanding traits: Sometimes confused with real life or Second Life type in the air without notice
Idol: Mr. Spock
More looks like: Dr. Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), the TV series "The Big Bang Theory"

6. The fan operating systems
Positions: Help desk, technical support, developer.
Profile: There is only one true way - and, more importantly, just a real operating system - for that person. All those who believe it are fools, whose technology needs are ignored. Although in most cases, associated with Apple products, sometimes also like the Windows platform or even Linux. All conversations end with explanations about the reasons why the operating system it is better, despite the company not to use it.

Hobbies: retort reviews online articles critical of the operating system of your choice
Last book read: No, just read blogs on your favorite operating system
Biggest achievement: crack the iPhone, remain allied with Windows Vista, manage all the editors of the Ubuntu wiki
Outstanding features: Buttons ear white shirt original style Microsoft Bob, a penguin breaded
Idols: Steve Wozniak, Bill Ghent, Linus Torvalds
More looks like: Steve Ballmer

7. The Promiser
Positions: Outbound sales, business developer
Profile: There is nothing to tell that person not to close a deal. You want features that the original product has not it? Closed. If you need something in six months, "Promiser" get three. Of course, he does not have to deliver anything - this is a work for developers. Delays, excessive spending and extra features will be the headache of another person.

Hobbies: Golf, Michelob Ultra
Last book read: "The Art of War" (Sun Tzu)
Biggest achievement: Closing a business enterprise software of millions of dollars using a trial version downloaded from the internet
Outstanding features: Smile used car salesman.
Idol: Blake (Alec Baldwin) in "Glengarry"
Most resembles: Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) on "30 Rock"

8: The figure
Positions: Unknown
Profile: Not my problem, not my job, not my fault - that's the slogan of Shade that somehow manages to occupy space in the IT department (and getting paid) without filling it. Nobody knows for sure what the Shade is always because he or she became an expert at doing almost nothing. Over time, the Shade may receive managements responsibilities, and then move to the "human barricade".

Hobbies: Sell hardware not used by the company during lunch on eBay
Last book read: "Ninjutsu: The Art of Invisibility" (Ninjutsu: The Art of Invisibility)
Biggest achievement: Taking a month off without the boss noticing
Outstanding features: None
Idol: Sergeant Schultz (John Banner) on "Hogan's Heroes"
More looks like: A cell is not identified in the payroll

Source: http://computerworld.uol.com.br/carreira/2010/01/12/8-perfis-profissionais-da-area-de-ti/