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If I remember correctly, they had a desk named "JERKER" in early 2000s.

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That's (sadly) a Swedish name, yes.

I think it's a pretty cool name. But it's pronounced more like "Yeah"-rker.

Yeah, large part of the world reads J as Y in ye/yi combinations in English, even if they'd giggle at what it means in English.

I worked with a guy called Jerker at IBM in Greenock, who soon learned to give back as good as he got. Swedish people can be pretty sarcastic, so he was what you'd call a "good cultural fit".

iirc they had a light bulb named TEST. like, I want a real bulb not a test one.

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