My primary work is ...

Code is for code monkeys. I'm a JOAT for IT (Jerk of All Trades).

Maybe that's his job, you insensitive clod.

My primary work is mining demographic information on readership of news-aggregate sites by hijacking their built-in poll systems.

I studied human-cyborg relations in college, but after the economy tanked I had to take a job programming binary load lifters.

That depends:

vi or emacs?

"but if you paid attention, we're also a group who value our privacy."

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You were lucky.

We dreamed of hex code. Our cubicles were in a septic tank, and we had to solder op-amps directly onto the PCB. During our break, our manager would thrash us with his belt.