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

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
      99·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • nick@midwest.social
        43·
        9 months ago

        A fellow sysadmin, I thought we went extinct. I had to pivot to “infrastructure engineer” but it’s basically the same thing nowadays.

        • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
          561·
          9 months ago

          Job titles in IT don’t mean anything these days.

          In particular, the term “engineer” has been butchered beyond recognition.

          • nick@midwest.social
            28·
            9 months ago

            Wait so you’re telling me I’m NOT an engineer?

            Agreed. I usually say developer because I view engineers as people who do actual engineering. I’m more of a plumber who fits pipes (pieces of software) together.

            • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
              7·
              9 months ago

              My first job was as an “engineer”.

              I spent most my time resetting passwords and setting up Outlook…

            • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
              51·
              9 months ago

              Wait so you’re telling me I’m NOT an engineer?

              Are you licensed by the state? There’s your answer!

              • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                9 months ago

                These days it’s more “do you have an engineering degree from an accredited University.”

                The vast majority of engineering diplomas are not in licensed areas.

            • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              2·
              9 months ago

              Iirc it’s full blown illegal to call yourself an engineer in Canada unless you’re a licensed engineer. Meaning that if you marketed yourself as a software engineer without an engineering license, you could technically get in trouble. Not that I think they really enforce that for “Software Engineer”.

        • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
          261·
          9 months ago

          Not quite extinct, but endangered.

          Thankfully there’s been a recent trend of companies pulling back out of the cloud because reality set in and they’re neither saving money nor getting a better experience than they had with their on-prem solutions.

          So, if that trend holds, we’ll hopefully go from endangered to merely threatened.

        • BassTurd@lemmy.world
          4·
          9 months ago

          I have two weeks left as a sysadmin and I’m transitioning to development. My experiences in sysadmin are a big reason I got in the door with little coding experience. A lot of devs don’t have an in depth knowledge about computers outside of programming, and knowing that extra stuff can certainly raise the ceiling.