11mo ago

How IT People See Each Other

Not OC: Just found this on my old hard drive while grabbing some other stuff.

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11mo ago

How IT People See Each Other

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The entire sys admin column is so on point!
- As a sysadmin, I concur. Though the Neo panel in the bottom right should have also been another middle finger. If not that, then the Curb Your Enthusiasm meme where he's like "Fuck you, and I'll see you tomorrow" lol.
  
  A fellow sysadmin, I thought we went extinct. I had to pivot to “infrastructure engineer” but it’s basically the same thing nowadays.
- I was a sysadmin, once....Not for long.

As a seasoned sysadmin, I approve.

Non potato version
- Thank you! I squinted so hard. 😖
- Project Manager x QA = The TA... I thought it was astronauts floating around in space or some shit lol.

Gosh the QA column is depressingly accurate for shitty game companies.
The best thing to take away from this meme isn't "lol QA dumb" or "lol Designers eat paint" it's "fuck, what kind of toxic asshole legitimately feels this way about their coworkers" and yea, they exist - I've met them. Don't be one of those assholes.
- The "qa as seen by dev" pic should be this Jessie meme.
  The QA as seen by QA pic should be this Dr strange meme.

I feel like this one really deserves to be in there
- this is how i see other sysadmins when they explain their 30yr old bash script that does everything.
  
  Hey, that's completely unfair!
  It's only 10 years old.
  
  Should have been rewritten in perl for maintainability tbqh!!
- The lone wolf dev who hasnt been seen for 3 months explaining how the new microservices he created all integrate together
  
  Bingo knows everyone’s name-o.
- LOL. I'm assuming that would be how everyone but the project managers see project managers?
- That's just how everyone sees the client
- How I see the DBAs
- That’s how HR sees everyone
- So I had finger dude twice when I made this, but I edited it in just for you
  https://i.imgur.com/zQwuzXm.jpeg
  
  "Linux Stan"?

As a developer, I see sysadmins/devops as black magic masochists
- I choose to take that as a compliment (if it wasn't). lol
- As a DevOps guy, I can tell you we're black magic sadists. You should feel the pain. Not us.
  
  Pls no. I can only take so much Terraform
- I refer to our sysadmin as a BOFH and he doesn’t seem to mind. The younger devs don’t know the term without googling it.
  The sysadmin column feels so right.
  
  I refer to our sysadmin as a BOFH and he doesn’t seem to mind.
  He's probably secretly delighted, although of course he'd never tell you that.
  
  What's BOFH? Bitch Ole Fucking Hippie?
  Edit: Ah, bastard operator from hell.
  
  BOFH excuse generator

I sense a theme, when it comes to the sysadmins.
- Having been a sysadmin you would be surprised at both the amount of times I had to explain why we couldn't just put an unprotected endpoint outside the firewall and also how much alcohol I drank to cope with the former.
  It is like being builder to architects that think you can have a second story just floating in midair. I am baffled by how ignorant of the basics of infrastructure many developers are.
  Obviously I don't expect a website dev to know the details of like iptables configs for load balancing with failover or whatever. Or even be terribly familiar with how to set up a production web server. I do expect people to know stuff like every computer on the internet is under constant attack from scripts. Or that taking advantage of peoples' trust and leaking their data is bad actually.
  
  Daniel?
- One might note they also have the highest average income
  
  Fuck no we don't.

Only people I ever have a problem with are Project Managers. I have had way more bad experiences with utterly psychotic PMs than PMs who are actually good at their job. Everybody else is super cool, but I swear all of you are alcoholics. At least Sales pays for the drinks?
- A good PM is rare because as soon as you get one, they'll get poached within a few months.
  
  Or burned out because they get pulled into every project that's gone off the rails.
- This tracks, my new boss used to be a PM, and she's God awful.

As a sysadmin, the sysadmin parts are 100% true
- Not exactly, at least for me QA is my best friend, makes my job much easier.
  
  Joking aside, I have a lot of respect for quality QA, and developers who actually listen to and work with their target audience and operations teams

That customer is missing y'all.

As someone who has been working in IT for 20+ years this is completely inaccurate except for the sys admin column.
- Found the SysAdmin

Is "IT" a general term for tech workers in some places? I keep seeing people refer to it as such, but where I am, it is a term which primarily describes networking and infrastructure professionals.
- Yeah, it's a generic term here that encompasses most tech jobs
- IT stands for Information Technology. Relevant Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology
  
  Yes, that is consistent with my understanding - networking and infrastructure. Engineering and management is generally not considered IT where I am unless they are directly supporting networking and infrastructure. But someone writing code for a game or app wouldn't be IT.
- Network engineering is kind of in the middle where you take the skill set of help desk and office management. This often leads to help desk and software development both falling under the organization in information technology. Application support also often falls under this category.
  
  Someone should make a ven diagram.

The great promise of the cloud was to outsource sysadmins to be Microsoft and Amazon's problem.
- At the cost of getting new sysadmins who are less numerous, but ask for more money, and best of all, you get to pay Microsoft and Amazon to train them!
  
  Not only that, but it's no longer your problem when its in the cloud. You can blame the cloud for everything!
- That absolutely was a huge part of the marketing pitch, but as one who supports his company's cloud infrastructure...
  Lol. Rofl. Lmao even.
  Maybe that works for places that don't have heavy tech needs. Maybe.
  
  Sounds oddly familiar. Cloud ops at an msp BTW
- It's almost like marketing makes it sound like it's a fully-managed, worry-free service where users can just call up Bill Gates himself instead of hundreds of management portals someone has to babysit.
- They said that about computers going to make books disappear forty years ago… They never printed so many books that attempted to explain how those damn computers worked!
- Microsoft when you don't pay out the ass for support:

I feel like this is more "how we feel we get perceived by others" moreso.
I try and perceive all the members of my team as, well, my team. I heavily appreciate everyone busting their assess off and contributions.
However, there are folks on each layer that do actually treat others like this and I think we can all agree those people suuuuck.

Moar jpeg!
- it's an artifact is how many times it's been reposted, like rings on a tree
- I have extended the jpeg
  Who wants to keep it going?

I kinda want an "End Users" one, too (already know what their "Sysadmins" would be).

As a developer, the baby is how I see developers, too.

even in sourcery, the one that controls the domain has the biggest fuckery.

Where's my network admins at?
- Comprehended under sysadmin because the attitude is the same just the devices are a bit different.
  
  I prefer that when done properly a network admin is simply forgotten about.

In 2024, I feel like we should have the power to create images that aren't fuzzy, overcompressed, and hard to see messes, yet here we are.
- Read the post body.
  Not OC: Just found this on my old hard drive while grabbing some other stuff.
  
  But Admiral Patrick, how dare your ancient memes from times long forgotten not meet our modern expectations? Do you at least have a proper shitposting license?
  I'll post mine as reference, may you gaze upon it and ponder the shortcomings of your horrible artifact-ridden memes!
- Yep this seems even more blurry and pixelated than the last 3 times I saw it haha
  I imagine people resharing memes (long before OP here) take a photo of their monitor with a potato phone and then reupload that after resizing it with some shitty Motorola app or whatever first. Do that 3-4x and soon it's a mess.

the illustration of the devs with 500 years of xp was missing hahaha

The designers as seen by designers is so right.
Nothing they come up with can be wrong, it's all innovative!!

I was in tier 1 support for a few years back in the day, so I'm trying to think of an appropriate image. Based on my experience... something disposable.
- Moss & Roy from IT Crowd
- Helpdesk? You guys are like the people who have to go and fix a melting nuclear reactor. Necessary but only do it for like a year or two otherwise you get broken.
  
  There's a reason it's nickname is helldesk

Do a column for linux stans.
- Okay I just went and did it. Hopefully this offends at least 1 person so this wasn’t a waste of time.
  https://i.imgur.com/2wMQvQF.jpeg

Sysadmin’s lol : we put the ‘no’ in innovation.

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