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That is to say, I was a tech support lackey, answering the phones and talking to dozens of dialup ISP users daily.
It was a small company, and of the three techs there, none of us were Windows users - two Linux, one Mac. Someone had helpfully printed screenshots of Winsock's various dialog boxes and taped them up around our cubicle. It was enough.
At one of my past employers, my manager (who sat next to me) told me that he wasn't allowed to say anything whatsoever about past employees - when anyone called to confirm past employment he had to give them HR's phone number, where specially trained operatives would presumably answer the one and only question allowed.
...thus confirming my long-held belief that I am the center of the universe.
Additionally, for those of us who works with designers, this gets in the way. My designer-colleague is comfortable editing HAML by now; I want to give him the templates and let him move things around without having to involve me for things like where a label should be.