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REASONS WHY PEOPLE WHO WORK WITH COMPUTERS SEEM TO HAVE A LOT OF SPARE TIME

3 years ago by chraebsli to c/programmerhumor

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Darkard 15 points 3 years ago

Network engineers don't have any free time. Those other 6 claimed it was a network problem and we are having to prove it's not.

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sickday 9 points 3 years ago

Remember, when in doubt: "It's a DNS issue"

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kbotc 1 point 3 years ago

DNS takes 3 seconds to respond: I still need you to prove it’s a problem with DNS.

Thank god for bcc-tools.

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chraebsli 12 points 3 years ago

Windows Admin: Its updating

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ares35 10 points 3 years ago

2 hours later: "it's reinstalling"

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snooggums 5 points 3 years ago

3 hours later: Ok look, more updates.

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chraebsli 5 points 3 years ago

6 hours later: blue screen of death; has to setup windows again

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ripcord 1 point 3 years ago

...installs more updates. No postpone.

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dylanTheDeveloper 9 points 3 years ago

Linux -> it's installing dependant packages

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Haus 8 points 3 years ago

"It's compiling" -> Why programmers have wack hobbies.

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chraebsli 6 points 3 years ago

Windows User: Its loading

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Gustephan 4 points 3 years ago

Start sim at 8pm (ie, when nobody else is using the shared compute resources) --> jack off for 7 hours while occasionally checking that the sim hasn't crashed --> check my results when sim finishes at 3am

A hard day's work in the life of a simulation engineer

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chraebsli 1 point 3 years ago

sounds like an easy job to me. but i think thats not everything you do all day long.
but ehmm... are you hiring?

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Gustephan 1 point 3 years ago

Yeah... I made the mistake of looking for more work early in that job and got the dead time filled up pretty quickly. I quit that job and I'm a grad student now, but they probably are still hiring. It was an airforce engineering contractor job in Florida, so it's not very hard but it's an employees market due to strict degree/nationality hiring requirements and general unpleasantness of living in Florida

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hactar42 3 points 3 years ago

My first job in IT required that I run this EDI import process every morning. It was a custom in house solution that extracted the EDI files loaded them in to a SQL database, which then feed them into our ERP system. After my first month I had it totally scripted, but still had to monitor it. So, I would come in, kick off the VBS and read the news, catch up on stuff, and generally have an hour or two to just relax. Then we upgraded to SQL 2008 with brand new hardware and the process only took a couple of minutes. I still miss those mornings.

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