Reason #17 why it's astonishing that Tobin got promoted:

I can't help myself, I like pushing people's buttons. Besides the fact that I needle Europeans at work when they get pretentious, to the point that I expect to get a call from HR any day now, I get a lot of pleasure out of throwing a curse word into normal engineering discussions.

I like seeing people's eyes widen just a little bit when instead of saying that our floor's DHCP server started malfunctioning at a meeting, I'll say that it "went apeshit". Or I'll say something about having to "un-fuck" some code before I send it out for review. It keeps people a little off balance around me. Being surrounded by 40 year old married engineers means that sometimes the environment needs a little spice.

Side note: It's really weird that the spell checker on my blogger software didn't tag "un-fuck" as a misspelled word. Or maybe it's really cool that they added that to the dictionary.