Normal programmers?

[izard]

When I chat with my colleagues, customers, and ppl I met in conferences, usually our smalltalk evolves about techy or very techy subjects.

But when I meet other programmers IRL, and try to use the same smalltalk patterns, it never works, they always look surprised, like: "why this guy talks about work stuff outside of nine-to-five office hours? Is he crazy or something? Lets discuss soccer or fishing instead!"

Am I in a bubble or something?

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Probably you are.
It's not what I observe here in the Bay Area. Work, work, work all the time. Only at work, at lunch time, people talk about other stuff.

[izard]

Yes, lunch time conversations are special, Germans have a set of permissible lunch smalltocks topics. Unfortunately this list is never published.