I work in the IT department. You might think IT’s ‘it’, but let me tell you, IT’s not all ‘that’. I’m a technical custodian; yeah, that’s what doing IT feels like, constantly fixing people’s data errors and cleaning their electronic messes.

When things run smoothly, nobody notices me and nobody cares about anything I do. When they lose their connection to the Internet and can’t send or receive E-mail, I sit under an interrogation light as the prime suspect in the murder of their productivity.

I risk my life in server room trenches, fighting to regain peace and connectivity for all. They sit stewing; playing solitaire and utter ignorant complaints against everything and anything connected to computers.

Surfing where they shouldn’t, catching a virtual boatload of viruses, they think me a worm for telling them what they ought not do. Reviled for making room on their desktops, I’ll toss their cookies and clean out their cache.

Everyone’s your best friend when they don’t need you; that’s what IT’s all about.