Network Administration.
If the network and servers all work: What are we paying you for?
If the network or one of the servers are down: What are we paying you for?
infrastructure in general - even beyond IT. No one sits at home thinking: The sewer system is great! How reliably my shit vanishes from my toilet! Until it doesn’t.
Water supply is even more important than have a reliable shit hole. Without water our entire existence goes out the window. No flushing toilets, no washing hands, no drinking water, no cooking, no cleaning, and no bathing. I’ve had power, sewage, and water be unavailable several times. Water is by far the worst. I’d take a week long power outage or a few days without sewage over water being out for a single day.
Here is a recent ticket my team just got. I was honestly suprised how pissy it got.
Hopefully this is the easiest request you’ve had of the day. This is a request from my C-suite. Since we’ve looked at the network and everything ‘looks good.’ But they have asked us to take another look given the continued complaints from the vendor (see attached email) I’m escalating to the NE team so the “experts” can validate that there isn’t any code or anything that would be causing this cart to have faulty connections.
I mean, it’s definitely condescending, but it’s also dripping with “I was directly told to do this by someone who has the authority and the attitude to fire my entire department on a whim. I don’t think this will help, but I’m doing this specifically as CYA so I can get back to what I actually need to be doing instead.”
I don’t even hear the condescension when I read it. I just hear someone that’s incredibly annoyed at having to go through the motions for the bosses boss.
The “experts” part felt condescending to me. In a very “I know better than you, but you have the title so I have to defer to you” way.
Any maintenance
Proofreading.
Yuo mean poofrearimg,
And editing. A good editor will have a huge impact on the end result for a book. But the reader never considers that, because they only see the author’s name on the cover.
My work apparently. Other people got promoted for solving problems quickly. I didn’t have problems. At least, I did, but I solved them without help or advertising them enough probably.
You gotta justify your job by acting like it’s difficult
You tell them it’ll take a miracle to pull off so they see you as a miracle worker when you do it
Start looking pissed off all the time, swear a lot when you’re on the phone, call in a bomb threat when your boss and family are in your office waiting for you while you secretly sleep under your desk. The standard stuff.
Anything in IT.
So fucking true
Anyhing IT
Can confirm. The IT guys never deserve their money.
If theyre doing it right, why do we need them? Everything works.
If they do it even slightly wrong, why are we paying them? They clearly can’t do anything right.
Taking a shower.
Dusting. If you don’t dust thoroughly enough things will look alright but people will feel vaguely unwell. Indoor air quality in general is something I notice constantly post-2019
User interfaces
And stairs
One more vore for UIs.
Nobody notices great UIs. (Except people who build them - tho if that would be true all uo would be copied and end up great)
IT.
came here to say this and it irks me that doing nothing has the same effect as doing something exceptionally well.
Thought you were talking about the movie, and I agreed.
then realised it was the scary IT you were talking about.
agree even more
Housework. Anyhing from putting away coats to doing the dishes, etc
Pretty much all safety regulations
Every safety rule is written in blood but due to no one getting hurt (because of said rules) people begin to think the rules aren’t necessary.
It’s the same concept with preventative measures like vaccines. Vaccines worked to the point we had an entire generation grow up in a world without the most common forms of debilitating diseases and as a result we now have anti-vaxxers everywhere.
It’s even prevalent in things like the hole in the ozone layer. When it was first discovered EVERYONE was panicking about it. But then we fixed it to the point some people think it was never really a problem at all.
Y2K is another example of this. It could have been bad. But programmers worked for years fixing the date problem in software. Nothing came of it because of all the hard work.
Urban planning. Being able to walk or take transit to all your errands gets taken for granted until you move to a suburban asphalt desert.
Plumbing
Seasoning
Salt yes, but I’m convinced bay leaves do nothing
Bay leaves let that one person at dinner know, that you don’t like them
Noooo, getting the bay leaf is lucky!
I got news for you buddy, you’re not your mums favourite child
I thought something similar until I tried a bay leaf tea to see what the flavor is. Put 1 leaf into boiling water like you are brewing a tea and give it a taste. It’s a subtle umami flavor.
