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[-] DokPsy@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

See, for me it's not as much the computers that's the issue. It's the people. Oh God the people. Makes me want to go deep into the middle of nowhere where there's not even light pollution

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste their stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.

[-] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Find you a B2B position .... it's still glorified service desk, but at least you're dealing with your own kind instead of shudders Normies

Edit: I just realize B2B can still be the general computer literate populace ... I don't quite know how to call this type of job. L3 support?

We deal with other engineers, the customer's in house IT team calls us for support with our specific product, but we don't deal with the end users or the stakeholders, only engineer to engineer.

[-] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 1 points 19 hours ago

We deal with other engineers, the customer’s in house IT team calls us for support with our specific product, but we don’t deal with the end users or the stakeholders, only engineer to engineer.

Which doesn't really quarantee much. I'm a sysadmin in a corporate with offices in multiple countries and even continents. Part of the job is to build services for other offices and help their local IT guys with their stuff. I've seen multiple times when "IT guy" plugs in wrong cables multiple times even via monitored video call, creates loops to the network, pulls both power cables from a running ESX servers (production critical, of course) and so on.

Gladly there's also competent guys and then it's a breeze. They have their strenghts and knowledge on their local setup, I know my shit and we speak the same language so I get competent requests and detailed descriptions on support tickets while knowing that they don't do anything stupid after I finish my part of the task.

[-] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Ah yes, the core switch local loop ... my favorite way to force the network team to enable STP

[-] DokPsy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'm a step off from it at an MSP so it's not like it's just anyone calling in. But the number of c suite people who apparently can't do their job without AI these days is concerning

[-] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The one thing C suite execs and AI have in common is that they're both really good at being confidently wrong.

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