I’m afraid to ask!

I was thinking about this...well, not THIS...but this in a general sense the other day. I retired a couple of years ago, and was talking to former coworker about people we had worked with in the past. It was never "that guy that wrote the awesome C++ code" or "that amazing database administrator". We referred to damn near everyone in terms of something memorable they did that had absolutely nothing to do with work. There was the alcoholic guy. The guy that committed suicide by filling his pockets with rocks and going "ice fishing". The guy who tried sleeping with his boss's admin, the HR vice president, and his own admin.

The big takeaway: don't worry about working hard to impress people. Just try not to send accidental dick pics and you'll be fine.