Missing the server room? Need someone to help with an offline printer? Spend eight hours among your favorite overly refrigerated colleagues.

Have you ever noticed how IT folks walk around with waiter eyes when they're outside their domain? You know, waiter eyes, like when you need a refill on your Mountain Dew and the dude or lady catches you in their peripheral… but just keeps walking?

And I get it. It’s lucky the people who make printers didn’t make Voyager, we’d have lost Voyager by the asteroid belt. You can just look at printer funny and it will go offline, but somehow just for your computer. And that's why IT is there right? Aside from guarding their overly air-conditioned domain.

Once, I had a manager ask an IT staffer to order him a new chair mat.

Usually, when I see IT roaming the office, I remember all those weird mouse issues I want answered. (Mac folks: have you noticed third-party Bluetooth mice acting up? Since updating to Sonoma, I’ve had nonstop issues with tracking speed resetting. And any time Bluetooth headphones are in use, it somehow causes lag in mouse movement. I’ve switched back to a wired mouse, for ****’s sake.)

So, I get why y'all hide in the server room.