Not OC: Just found this on my old hard drive while grabbing some other stuff.
I sense a theme, when it comes to the sysadmins.
One might note they also have the highest average income
Fuck no we don’t.
How dare you accuse salary.com of lying to me?!?!?
Averages are fun. It’s likely Opsy roles do have the highest average. But it’s also very true that devs have the highest ceilings. There’s just very few devs making 600+ and the majority at 120-150. Then there is an absolute shit load of opsys making 160-200. So in ops you hit the ceiling super fast while the occasional dev just keeps rocketing to bullshit pay but the averages are what they are
(Hiring manager for devops. I get the raw data through a corporate data broker)
Having been a sysadmin you would be surprised at both the amount of times I had to explain why we couldn’t just put an unprotected endpoint outside the firewall and also how much alcohol I drank to cope with the former.
It is like being builder to architects that think you can have a second story just floating in midair. I am baffled by how ignorant of the basics of infrastructure many developers are.
Obviously I don’t expect a website dev to know the details of like iptables configs for load balancing with failover or whatever. Or even be terribly familiar with how to set up a production web server. I do expect people to know stuff like every computer on the internet is under constant attack from scripts. Or that taking advantage of peoples’ trust and leaking their data is bad actually.
Daniel?
What are the odds of that working? You think I’d leave myself open to a simple brute force collision attack?
Also all sysadmins share a hive mind.
I guess the hive Mind saves on the booze. It’s after 5 in some sysadmin’s time zone
Sysadmin’s lol : we put the ‘no’ in innovation.
That customer is missing y’all.
Only people I ever have a problem with are Project Managers. I have had way more bad experiences with utterly psychotic PMs than PMs who are actually good at their job. Everybody else is super cool, but I swear all of you are alcoholics. At least Sales pays for the drinks?
A good PM is rare because as soon as you get one, they’ll get poached within a few months.
Or burned out because they get pulled into every project that’s gone off the rails.
Yup, before I went into tech I worked at an architecture firm and we had this one absolutely amazing PM from Australia who was smart, a clear communicator, and so much more on top of his shit then any other PM and he burnt out and quit and moved back to Australia after like 2 years because they just kept throwing him into the absolute biggest messes since he was clearly the best at cleaning them up.
He’s also the one who I got drunk at an airport bar with and just repeatedly urged me to leave the company and go somewhere well run … there were pretty clear signs he wasn’t enjoying his assignments.
Ohhh that’s me right now. I work in a consultancy and I only got assigned to projects that are on fire. It’s almost 24 months without a gap between projects. Help me ಥ_ಥ
Put your foot down, establish boundaries, and take a well deserved vacation with 0 communication to work while on it. Otherwise, I would start looking somewhere else. Your health is more important.
Help me ಥ_ಥ
“For those of us who are about to die, we salute you!”
I’m hoping you’re not just an employee of that consultancy, but a contractor instead, and that you charge a good hourly rate, considering the situation you’re in.
This tracks, my new boss used to be a PM, and she’s God awful.
The entire sys admin column is so on point!
As a sysadmin, I concur.
A fellow sysadmin, I thought we went extinct. I had to pivot to “infrastructure engineer” but it’s basically the same thing nowadays.
Didn’t you guys morph into DevOps?
DevOps on the resume, Sysadmin in my heart forever.
Job titles in IT don’t mean anything these days.
In particular, the term “engineer” has been butchered beyond recognition.
I’m an analyst. I’ve never analyzed anything.
I’m an architect, I’ve never designed a house.
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.
Digital archaelogist here.
Warm greetings to you from the Customer Success Evangelist.
That sounds like an actual job title, that works alongside a React Ninja. What do you do, exactly?
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”.
My first job was as an “engineer”.
I spent most my time resetting passwords and setting up Outlook…
Wait so you’re telling me I’m NOT an engineer?
Are you licensed by the state? There’s your answer!
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.
Keep up the good fight my friend. We shall rise again.
Rise again you shall, from the ash of the burning sky.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
I’m an olde dog sysadmin at this point. The end is nigh!
My position is still called sysadmin shrugs
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.
I was a sysadmin, once…Not for long.
Gosh the QA column is depressingly accurate for shitty game companies.
The best thing to take away from this meme isn’t “lol QA dumb” or “lol Designers eat paint” it’s “fuck, what kind of toxic asshole legitimately feels this way about their coworkers” and yea, they exist - I’ve met them. Don’t be one of those assholes.
The “qa as seen by dev” pic should be this Jessie meme.
The QA as seen by QA pic should be this Dr strange meme.
I feel like this is more “how we feel we get perceived by others” moreso.
I try and perceive all the members of my team as, well, my team. I heavily appreciate everyone busting their assess off and contributions.
However, there are folks on each layer that do actually treat others like this and I think we can all agree those people suuuuck.
even in sourcery, the one that controls the domain has the biggest fuckery.
In 2024, I feel like we should have the power to create images that aren’t fuzzy, overcompressed, and hard to see messes, yet here we are.
Read the post body.
Not OC: Just found this on my old hard drive while grabbing some other stuff.
But Admiral Patrick, how dare your ancient memes from times long forgotten not meet our modern expectations? Do you at least have a proper shitposting license?
I’ll post mine as reference, may you gaze upon it and ponder the shortcomings of your horrible artifact-ridden memes!
Funny thing is, I did upscale it a little bit. The original was worse xD
Lol, it is indeed one of the cleaner versions that I remember having seen, nice work! ^, ^
Yep this seems even more blurry and pixelated than the last 3 times I saw it haha
I imagine people resharing memes (long before OP here) take a photo of their monitor with a potato phone and then reupload that after resizing it with some shitty Motorola app or whatever first. Do that 3-4x and soon it’s a mess.
As a developer, I see sysadmins/devops as black magic masochists
I refer to our sysadmin as a BOFH and he doesn’t seem to mind. The younger devs don’t know the term without googling it.
The sysadmin column feels so right.
I refer to our sysadmin as a BOFH and he doesn’t seem to mind.
He’s probably secretly delighted, although of course he’d never tell you that.
What’s BOFH? Bitch Ole Fucking Hippie?
Edit: Ah, bastard operator from hell.
Bastard Operator From Hell
As a DevOps guy, I can tell you we’re black magic sadists. You should feel the pain. Not us.
Pls no. I can only take so much Terraform
Did you even try to validate before creating that PR???
PR?
git checkout main && git pull branch && git push --force
I choose to take that as a compliment (if it wasn’t). lol
The great promise of the cloud was to outsource sysadmins to be Microsoft and Amazon’s problem.
At the cost of getting new sysadmins who are less numerous, but ask for more money, and best of all, you get to pay Microsoft and Amazon to train them!
Not only that, but it’s no longer your problem when its in the cloud. You can blame the cloud for everything!
“Yeah we’re familiar with this
issuedesign, and have opened 17 support requests and upvoted 5 user voice posts to Microsoft about it. But hey we have this workaround that is not maintainable that you can use meanwhile”
They said that about computers going to make books disappear forty years ago… They never printed so many books that attempted to explain how those damn computers worked!
Microsoft when you don’t pay out the ass for support:
It’s almost like marketing makes it sound like it’s a fully-managed, worry-free service where users can just call up Bill Gates himself instead of hundreds of management portals someone has to babysit.
That absolutely was a huge part of the marketing pitch, but as one who supports his company’s cloud infrastructure…
Lol. Rofl. Lmao even.
Maybe that works for places that don’t have heavy tech needs. Maybe.
Sounds oddly familiar. Cloud ops at an msp BTW
I was in tier 1 support for a few years back in the day, so I’m trying to think of an appropriate image. Based on my experience… something disposable.
Moss & Roy from IT Crowd
Helpdesk? You guys are like the people who have to go and fix a melting nuclear reactor. Necessary but only do it for like a year or two otherwise you get broken.
As a sysadmin, the sysadmin parts are 100% true
Not exactly, at least for me QA is my best friend, makes my job much easier.
Joking aside, I have a lot of respect for quality QA, and developers who actually listen to and work with their target audience and operations teams
Do a column for linux stans.
Okay I just went and did it. Hopefully this offends at least 1 person so this wasn’t a waste of time.
As someone who has been working in IT for 20+ years this is completely inaccurate except for the sys admin column.
Found the SysAdmin
