diffaldoReal Struggle š
I have a colleague making close to twice my salary struggling with ITā¦but heās extremely skilled at his actual job.
Yeah my bet is that the meme is facetious
Onno (VK6FLAB)Nope itās not facetious ā¦ Iām an ICT professional and I see this regularly.
Ok then, sure itās extreme but document handling is not necessarily a key (or even important) part of their work. Yes they absolutely shouldnāt need to use 15min or get help to save a document, but if their skills in their actual job are spectacular and they produce the work of two in that area, of course they still should be compensated well. I donāt know your specific case, but this is almost the case I mentioned.
gustofwindItās pretty funny how the people who only have computer skills are hating on people who only have their own skills too
Computer support is literally only useful to other humans doing useful stuff
These people have 0 usefulness outside of helping the guy print a pdf and yet they consider themselves so high and mighty
These people have 0 usefulness outside of helping the guy print a pdfā¦
Until you click on a phishing link.
This is the curse of IT. Perpetually undervalued yet absolutely essential. If IT were ever to disappear, the businesses they support become walking corpses.
It chaps my ass that everyone working in business has grown up with computers being essential to business yet its somehow still acceptable for them to be functionally illiterate in using them.
Sometimes its so fucking bad that the equivalent would be someone being granted a drivers license and given a car but they have no idea how to put it in park, let alone use the brakes.
IT are the Dunedain Rangers protecting The Shire. Theyāre not popular, theyāre barely acknowledged, often scorned, but without their presence The Shire cannot be.
My industry could abandon most technology and weād be fine but things would just take longer to do š¤·āāļøbut everyone I know still appreciates and respects IT anyway
Most people just use their computers to accomplish other things in life and then go about their business without developing actual computer skills. The reason yall in IT is cause you were obsessed w computers enough to truly learn how to use them.
You could always learn how to code an awful system that requires IT support if helping people print and plug in cables isnāt rewarding enough