(BTW, I don't vouch for any other comics on that blog)
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
This is what I do and how I do it (day job)
People have asked what I do for my day job. Finally, thanks to the webcomic xkcd, a graphic answer (click to enlarge):
(BTW, I don't vouch for any other comics on that blog)
(BTW, I don't vouch for any other comics on that blog)
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Hmmm, this is kind of like when a magician reveals how popular tricks work. You are now a non-person with the International Benevelonet Brotherhood of Computer Support and Allied Workers.
And that cartoon forgot the part about having to go through ten pages of Google results, because the first nine are all caches of the same page and have (a) not exactly the question you're looking for, or (b) totally unhelpful answers.
Not a support guy, but this is what I have to do when my own wife or co-workers ask me for help....
Wow. I am a software developer, and everyone assumes I know how to fix their printer or (not kidding) their TV. This one hits home for me!
Shhhhhhhh! You're not supposed to say. Now everybody will know how, and we'll have to dig ditches for a living.
(Ha! Like the hoi polloi have the hypothetical magic "aura". You know, where the tech just shows up, and things start working.)
British comedy "The IT Crowd" (I.T. as opposed to 'it') is about the tech guys for some company. They answer the phone thusly: "This is IT. Did you turn it off and then on again?"
Amused me.
If you don't know how to read that flow chart, check here.
I didn't realize you lived in India with all the other computer techs.
Pardon me, Missy, but that's "the other computer geniuses."
And here I thought you blogged all day long. Or was that in between the two ten minute intervals you sleep per day?
There's always time for what's really important.
Ha, that was my life as a network admin. once again Randall is in my head.
Also, alt-text please.
Alt-text: 'Hey Megan, it's your father. How do I print out a flowchart?'
Bah ha ha!
Good thing I set down my water.
Thanks, Dan.
Another clean one from that cartoonist:
Newton, 1666: "I've invented calculus!"
Leibniz, 1674: "I've invented calculus!"
Newton: "Really? Sounds a little bit..."
(Newton puts on sunglasses)
Newton: "...derivative."
...But yeah, read the site at your own risk.
Yeah, XKCD is a mixed bag. You can sit there and read comic after witty comic, and then all of a sudden it's like BAM! Inappropriateness! Unfortunate, because when it's good it's great.
This is a classic.
Great.
There goes my marketability down yet another notch.
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