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Lawrence Gilchrist
Mar 31, 2010

adult man having a slapfight about how he makes phone calls to vendors which is infinitely more noble than making phone calls to contractors megathread was too long of a title

the best submission wins first prize.

first prize is a 65" TV

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1gnoirents
Jun 28, 2014

hello :)
i just do a better job than everybody else and be slightly encouraging to everybody and somehow i never get fired and bosses are really upset and pissed when i decide to quit. thats what i do, try it. i havent been fired in 11 years

H.H
Oct 24, 2006

August is the Cruelest Month
IT is a trash profession for trash people, OP.

I should know, I work in IT.

Knight
Dec 23, 2000

SPACE-A-HOLIC
Taco Defender
Fast food restaurant labor spreadsheet engineer

Don't you DARE close with a crew of more than 2! The tables have spoken!

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
I have no idea how computers work and I'm proud of it.

Dang It Bhabhi!
May 27, 2004



ASK ME ABOUT
BEING
ESCULA GRIND'S
#1 SIMP

if your job doesn't involve "IT" somehow then you are not even an alive person or a person it doesn't make sense.

SBJ
Apr 10, 2009

Apple of My Eye

Laughter in the Sky
Let me make fun of someones job haha look at that poor person! Why doesnt he just be more like me, fixing outlook settings like a king

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
R-word m-worders unite.

Kuato
Feb 25, 2005

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"
Buglord
I've got a 65" tv. It's pretty sweet tbqh

Return Of JimmyJars
Jun 24, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
yo is that a tube tv?

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Huh? Of course I'm not worried I'll be replaced by a robot, my area of IT could never be automated.

Lawrence Gilchrist
Mar 31, 2010

Return Of JimmyJars posted:

yo is that a tube tv?

the other kind is extremely rare so yes

Hardawn
Mar 15, 2004

Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates
College Slice
the IT person at work tattled on me that i was taking a nap on the owners wicker furniture back in our storage bay during my lunch break. :jerkbag:

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Lawrence Gilchrist posted:

adult man having a slapfight about how he makes phone calls to vendors which is infinitely more noble than making phone calls to contractors megathread was too long of a title

the best submission wins first prize.

first prize is a 65" TV

Second prize is a set of steak knives

Third prize: your postings

West SAAB Story
Mar 13, 2014

by Athanatos

(and can't post for 208 days!)

like omg this dumb bitch didnt even know how to subnet and he calls himself a goddamn network engineer more like sanwich enginner at subway am i rte

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





I'm the engineer writing the IT automation software.

Management has decided that anyone whose job can be replicated in less than 5000 lines of code is to be let go.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

a bone to pick posted:

Huh? Of course I'm not worried I'll be replaced by a robot, my area of IT could never be automated.

Workers with real skills don't need a union. Also tipping is bad because the calculus of any non-strictly defined interaction between people takes too long to type into Wolfram Alpha.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
*Mentally runs down the list of practically identical computer languages he once knew looking for one he thinks you don't know

Shaquin
May 12, 2007

I don't believe computers are real

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Colonel Cancer posted:

R-word m-worders unite.

I avoid R at all costs :smug:

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Shaquin posted:

I don't believe computers are real

They're real pieces of poo poo, I'll tell you that much

Lawrence Gilchrist
Mar 31, 2010

Mirthless posted:

there are programs that do your job automatically already and they've been paying dispatchers 7.50 an hour to do it ever since the last minimum wage increase :ssh:

I'm sure you have something smug to add about how you're a "production" department and don't care what some "cost center" thinks

we laugh every time your department gets downsized due to a hot new script btw

this is the current first prize winner, from the gbs white house scapegoat getting fired gigathread

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
thats guys retarded

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
I program bathyspheres for NASA :smug:

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
i'mma squash u like a bunch of commits in a merge

sucka

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Haha what are you, a middle manager? Let me guess, payroll :rolleyes: you guys don't do any real work like me.

Oh hold on I'm getting a call.

...

Have you tried turning it off and then on again? I'll wait.

Bloodfart McCoy
Jul 20, 2007

That's a high quality avatar right there.
The servers for my company are based in Mexico for some goddamn reason, so if there's ever an issue there's a good chance all the Mexican IT hombres haven't even woken up yet because they're like four time zones away from us.

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost

dad gay. so what posted:

I program bathyspheres for NASA :smug:

you're back

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Methanar posted:

you're back

that's what she said :smug:

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
i cant even program my remote

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Enfield posted:

i cant even program my remote

that's what she said :smug:

scott zoloft
Dec 7, 2015

yeah same

Enfield posted:

i cant even program my remote

hell i can't even program my remote

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
I don't even own a tv :smug:

SpaceClown
Feb 13, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

H.H posted:

IT is a trash profession for trash people, OP.

I should know, I work in IT.

IT is a career you go into to save up enough money to attend university to get a real degree and get a real job.

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
its because i dont have one
edit: :smug:

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Program? More like schmoebram?

Honky Dong Country
Feb 11, 2015

As a professional computer toucher I can honestly tell you how your job is garbage and can be replicated by simple computer co-FAAAAAAAAAART.

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

As a very important IT mans nobody else can even do any of their work without me there to set up their computer and fix their stuff when they (yet again) get tricked into installing ransomware on their computer.

And you better loving not try and save anything anywhere but your user folder. You're too stupid to have the power to save files anywhere else.

Also I see the filthy poo poo you email to Janice in accounting. You nasty.

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Vakal
May 11, 2008

Hector Beerlioz posted:

I have no idea how computers work and I'm proud of it.


Knowing how computers work is like the absolute least important thing to know when it comes to being a I.T. service tech.


Most important? Listening to an end user describe their problem, typing that problem into the google search field and reading them back the the most popular fix to try, then taking all the credit when it works.

That's pretty much it.

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