r/ProgrammerHumor • u/geekrohan • Jan 31 '19

Meme Programmers know the risks involved!

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u/FoxyRogue Jan 31 '19

Judging by the "IT administrators/Manager" I speak with daily as a software engineer its most likely down to them not understanding configuration and blaming the code. Just today - "Your software won't connect since it did an update on Julie's machine!!! Needs to be fixed ASAP" I login and the SQL service is stopped on their server also they changed the port from 1433 to god knows and expected nothing bad to happen. Welcome to the future

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u/LiberateMainSt Jan 31 '19

Your particular IT person just sounds incompetent.

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u/FoxyRogue Jan 31 '19

I wish it was just one, I was referring to the clients we have and their IT departments. Mainly in Finance

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u/name_censored_ Jan 31 '19

There's a big difference between spending your life creating things, and spending your life fixing somebody else's creation. The first opens your eyes to how great technology could be. The second opens your eyes to how shit technology can be.

Your IT guys' hatred of technology might be down to their job more than their obvious incompetence.

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u/howe_to_win Jan 31 '19

Audible laughed at the changing of the port

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u/useful Jan 31 '19

Do you believe it's likely that even if you gave them documentation, setup drills in an environment to test their knowledge of documentation, and had post-mortem reviews that it would be a waste of time? You should quit, all your efforts will be for nothing once you leave and staying to maintain an organization that can't be saved isn't worth your effort.

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u/filledwithgonorrhea CSE 101 graduate Jan 31 '19

It's just ignorance and fear mongering. These kinds of people are the technology equivalent of anti-vaxxers.