As a software engineer I just tell people I’m not the IT guy. I make the things the IT guy uses
Even though I could fix their problem. I just don’t want to
Over the years it gets tiring, it doesn’t help that there’s a huge technological illiteracy issue even though we depend on it and use it every waking moment.
Yes! I always call it tech debt. It fits because, I’m constantly bailing out bankrupt users that are too big to fail. Solve Literacy , solve debt , then I can go back to making things
As someone in the IT administrating department, i feel like the new wave of software engineers have a frighteningly low understanding of the system they’re developing on. It appears as they are making plain code monkeys these days
How is your impression on this?
Not the OP but been in IT for a while. The current generation entering the workforce have been using tech since birth but do not seem to understand or care how it actually works. They are generally poor troubleshooters and seem hesitant to ask for help. I figure pandemic lockdowns and remote learning made this worse.
Please don’t generalise us like this. I’m currently in second semester and working for my company, working on a codebase. I very much care for how my stuff works, and I also know a fair bit I think. I troubleshoot as a hobby and am passionate.
Working as a software engineer developing for the IT team, I understand the system I’m developing on, but not the system I’m developing.
Jira customfields give me nightmares.
Hey, I got this great idea for an app. If you implement it, you can have 30% of the revenue!
I have the boobs, the belly, and the cigarette. I don’t have the millions.
You’re “only fans” away from those doll hairs if what you say is true.
No, that’s my twin brother. Sorry!
I like being the IT guy for people around me. It’s fun :)
I’m the IT guy in the damn IT research department 😔
Yes, providing work for free, living the dream. People assume that because it’s your profession and/or hobby you want to fix anyone’s problems
I rather learn on other people’s equipment and when I get good at it, I can do the same in my homelab. It’s a win win from my perspective :)
Yeah, I don’t really count running mbam as learning
Malwarebytes anti-malware?
That’s why I told my new neighbors I don’t really understand computers and the only help I could provide is carrying up the stairs of needed.
“No, I just was obsessed with playing Super Mario on my Nintendo 30 years ago, aunt Gladis.”
Darn it, I should have used that excuse, but now I’ve demonstrated value…. Guess I have to continue through with the rest of the D.E.N.N.I.S system on my own aunt.
no, NO, I CANT FIX YOUR PRINTER
IT guy here. Using printers as the example is perfectly hilarious to me. I am often dampening expectations with the old “there’s a few pieces of technology you will not find a 5 star review for, and printers are #1” in other words, their is not a model out there I’ll stake my reputation on.
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
So true. Happens to the wife and I all the time.
Opens a website and browse suddenly become the one person in the room who knows computers
God no please don’t 🤦.
