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Real Struggle 😔 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/memes@sopuli.xyz
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[–] 51 points 9 months ago (19 children)

I have a colleague making close to twice my salary struggling with IT...but he's extremely skilled at his actual job.

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I overheard someone considerably high up in my organization struggling to understand the concept of an email BCC (Blind Carbon Copy).

    He was trying to figure out how to notify a large number of people via email without letting them know who else was receiving the email.

    Some things may fall under IT but they should really fall under the category of things every professional should understand.

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  • [–] 46 points 9 months ago (13 children)

    But like... saving a PDF should not be considered IT lol

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Yeah my bet is that the meme is facetious

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Nope it's not facetious .. I'm an ICT professional and I see this regularly.

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  • [+] -8 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Ok then, sure it's extreme but document handling is not necessarily a key (or even important) part of their work. Yes they absolutely shouldn't need to use 15min or get help to save a document, but if their skills in their actual job are spectacular and they produce the work of two in that area, of course they still should be compensated well. I don't know your specific case, but this is almost the case I mentioned.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    It’s pretty funny how the people who only have computer skills are hating on people who only have their own skills too

    Computer support is literally only useful to other humans doing useful stuff

    These people have 0 usefulness outside of helping the guy print a pdf and yet they consider themselves so high and mighty

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    These people have 0 usefulness outside of helping the guy print a pdf...

    Until you click on a phishing link.

    This is the curse of IT. Perpetually undervalued yet absolutely essential. If IT were ever to disappear, the businesses they support become walking corpses.

    It chaps my ass that everyone working in business has grown up with computers being essential to business yet its somehow still acceptable for them to be functionally illiterate in using them.

    Sometimes its so fucking bad that the equivalent would be someone being granted a drivers license and given a car but they have no idea how to put it in park, let alone use the brakes.

    IT are the Dunedain Rangers protecting The Shire. They're not popular, they're barely acknowledged, often scorned, but without their presence The Shire cannot be.

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  • [–] -5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    My industry could abandon most technology and we’d be fine but things would just take longer to do 🤷‍♀️but everyone I know still appreciates and respects IT anyway

    Most people just use their computers to accomplish other things in life and then go about their business without developing actual computer skills. The reason yall in IT is cause you were obsessed w computers enough to truly learn how to use them.

    You could always learn how to code an awful system that requires IT support if helping people print and plug in cables isn’t rewarding enough

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    You seem to think that desktop support is the only IT job that exists, which is incorrect.

    I work in Infosec and my job isn't helping users with computer illiteracy, but I can still get frustrated when people don't know how to do basic tasks that their job requires.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    This is like saying Software Developers have a useless skill set, except to make the important, value creating, end users more productive.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    I've been in IT since it was called something else.

    90% of the work I do is to enable other people to do their job.

    Before IT, these people did their work on paper, which took more people, and more time, but they still did their work, and my job didn't exist.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    The fuck else is it? Did you come out your momma's vajayjay being able to save a pdf?

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yup. The key is are they paid to save pdfs? Or are they paid to do other things?

    I can save the shit out of some PDFs, but I’ve only ever made one sale in my entire life.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Are they paid to use the toilet to go to the bathroom or are they paid for other things? If they're paid for other things, they should shit on the floor wherever they happen to be and let the janitors handle that since they're the ones paid to clean things up.

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