Let’s see how Mastodon does with one of these:

Reply to this toot with what you do, and I’ll tell you why you’re probably going to get fired.

@Quinnypig consulting teams how to build data driven products.
@mikiobraun Failure to confirm a key stakehokder’s preexisting bias.
@Quinnypig ah good, I was worried about accidentally creating a sentient AI, but this is much more probable.
Identity and Access Management consultant
@Quinnypig I'm a principal engineer which means i mostly get to point out to mere senior engineers that their code and infrastructure is either drastically under or over engineered and there's nothing they can do to convince me otherwise.
@Quinnypig I am a freelance researcher for hedge funds and I host a service at Seeking Alpha
@TradingPlacesResearch hedge funds don’t do anything involving the word “free,” and you’ll be declared redundant once someone actually finds alpha.
@Quinnypig Assuming you’ll avoid the obvious - presales engineer at the blue cloud company.
@getling It’s not premarital sex if you never marry; similarly it’s not presales if nobody ever buys.
@Quinnypig Contract IT infrastructure project manager
@chiefoldmist someone misreads your title as “Smart Contract…” and figures you’re a scam.
@Quinnypig Post memes and hilarious GIFs on internal Slack.
@major The rest of the company is wondering where the hell you are since they’re using Teams.

@Quinnypig

It's hard to get fired when one is retired.

@SpaceLifeForm hurled back into the workforce so your pet can have some Alone Time during the day.
@Quinnypig Manage, maintain and evolve an OutSystems LowCode Application Development Platform Infrastructure, help the development teams with their architecture and follow best practices, also checking the developed code quality
@C_Alfaro Someone calls your bluff and looks up what each of those words means.
@Quinnypig lead SRE at a manufacturing tech startup
@Quinnypig Infrastructure consultant working at a small software provider.
@TechnicalAdept Small software provider gets hyper-scale cloud bill.
@Quinnypig write webservices to automate weather-based insurance
@gar Your storm prediction model didn’t account for shitstorms.
@Quinnypig marketing and strategy for the leading Kubernetes platform
@stum GKE conducts a round of layoffs.
@Quinnypig
retired to a life of tooting
@Quinnypig Cloud point of sale software
@Quinnypig Write accounting software in NodeJS/MongoDB that runs on AWS Lambda.
@stephenyeargin Having no way to predict what the accounting software costs to run.
@Quinnypig Vulnerability Research
@grinch Being the worst couples’ counselor ever.
@Quinnypig SIEM and log management implementation
@http_error_418 Someone discovers what rsyslog + grep cost.

@Quinnypig haha at a previous place we actually did this for a substantial proportion of the data (about 1/4)

Everywhere else has had more money than sense.

Also you don't want to know the issues I've seen with syslog implementations

@Quinnypig IT Infrastructure Architect
@auslander The company’s PowerPoint licenses expire.
@Quinnypig I'm a principal engineer cloud architect!
@grimm There’s a sudden shortage of adjectives and they need to reclaim the ones in your job title.
@Quinnypig Automating configuration of a global CDN
@terminalmage Someone realizes that there’s a web interface they can click instead.
@Quinnypig infrastructure monitoring, alerting, and event management.
@uberpinguin Someone realizes Nagios is free.
@Quinnypig they'll be back when they realize how much work it is to administer for 600k+ endpoints in a dynamic environment :)
@Quinnypig Broadcast Television System Admin
@avidrhl Failing to cut to commercial leads to an unfortunate hot mic incident.