I have a colleague making close to twice my salary struggling with IT…but he’s extremely skilled at his actual job.

But like… saving a PDF should not be considered IT lol

Yeah my bet is that the meme is facetious

Nope it’s not facetious … I’m an ICT professional and I see this regularly.

Ok then, sure it’s extreme but document handling is not necessarily a key (or even important) part of their work. Yes they absolutely shouldn’t 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 don’t know your specific case, but this is almost the case I mentioned.

It’s 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 pdf…

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. They’re not popular, they’re barely acknowledged, often scorned, but without their presence The Shire cannot be.