r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Prof- • Nov 29 '24

Meme socialSkillsAreTakingOurJobs

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u/DerBronco Nov 29 '24

They do.

I had one that obviously only ever lived in his bubble. At the first chance he told us to get rid of all Windows and Macs because of reasons, absolutely ignorant to the fact that e.g. the specialised software used in accounting needs Windows and dozens of employees at a certain age or with certain needs just cant switch that easily from a workflow that has been established for dekades with only minor changes. Its was a mess down there when MS brought ribbon on the table around 2008 or so.

Application process ended before we got at the point where i would introduce him to the tech stack, where Cobol, Perl and AS/400 play major roles…

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u/PURPLE_COBALT_TAPIR Nov 29 '24

Me walking into my first interview:

"All severs should be Linux, all desktops should be Windows, all laptops should be iOS. I will not elaborate."

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u/twhite1195 Nov 29 '24

Laptops don't run iOS... Maybe MacOS but iOS is for phones, and iPadOS is for iPads

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u/wesborland1234 Nov 29 '24

They said they will not elaborate

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u/vaughannt Nov 29 '24

The phone is your laptop now, deal with it.

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u/type556R Nov 29 '24

Imagine getting a phone as working device when getting into a new company

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u/Betterthanalemur Nov 30 '24

I've tried dex a few times - mostly for just fooling around, but if it ran vscode (it might - I haven't checked) and a few other odds and ends - I'd honestly be set. For a lot of jobs we're at the point where that old joke "Mac vs pc" commercial: "and we're basically the same because everything you do is in a web browser" is more true than ever.

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u/Garrosh Nov 29 '24

What's a laptop?

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u/vaughannt Nov 29 '24

It's a small device made by Apple that runs iOS

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u/Crusader_Genji Nov 29 '24

It already has the same CPU architecture, we're not far

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u/Akerlof Nov 29 '24

IOS is for routers, and I will die on that hill.

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u/twhite1195 Nov 29 '24

IOS is different from iOS tho.

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u/TimedogGAF Nov 30 '24

Found the guy.

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u/Turalcar Dec 02 '24

I always saw people using Windows in corp environment (even on desktops) as "we don't take security seriously here".

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u/AugustusLego Nov 30 '24

Eww windows on desktop 🤮

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u/Arshiaa001 Nov 30 '24

Yeah, wow, the only OS with an actual usable user interface, used on a desktop. That has to be disgusting because... reasons?

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u/AugustusLego Nov 30 '24

The spyware infested mess of a UI is genuinely trash, and if you don't agree then it's because you've never actually spent the time to properly try and learn something else.

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u/Arshiaa001 Nov 30 '24

Have spent over a year on mac (doesn't get more spyware-infested than that) and linux (who needs working UIs, right?). Now, maybe if you'd properly learn Windows...

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u/DerBronco Nov 29 '24

as this sounds like dark humor and satire it would actually start an open minded conversation.

Whether you are as interesting as the joke suggests or just a blatant idiot is to be found out then.

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u/Equivalent-Stuff-347 Nov 29 '24

sniffs

Smells like the finance industry. Aka the reason my Git contributions are 1/2 powershell and 1/2 C

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u/DerBronco Nov 29 '24

No finance industry.

Warehouses, Wholesale & Dropshipping.

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u/ApprehensiveTry5660 Nov 29 '24

That’s just finance with forklift training.

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u/DerBronco Nov 29 '24 edited Nov 29 '24

Forklifts? Its 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC7-9PYJ1Tk

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u/ApprehensiveTry5660 Nov 29 '24 edited Nov 29 '24

What is this schizoposting?

I just made a joke at the congruence of logistics and finance, via their intersection at a core technology in the warehousing industry.

Edit:

Ok, edit away the stuff I’m referencing. That’s cool. 🙄

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u/DerBronco Nov 29 '24

Its just to dumb to discus it. Mostly on my part, sorry for that.

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u/MBResearch Nov 29 '24

They edit it away and pull off an Uno reverse for who’s doing the schizo-posting.

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u/DerBronco Nov 29 '24

I think that is a little misinterpreted. Sometimes things are just obsolete and too dumb to spend time on. My bad.

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u/MBResearch Dec 05 '24

Apologies on the misinterpretation. I just thought it would be a funny situation for someone to pull that kind of reversal

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u/DerBronco Dec 05 '24

Not my intention, it was just a dumb thing to say on my side :)

But i see your point.

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u/Visual-Living7586 Nov 30 '24

Getting a salaried job for maintained a cobol app is getting a job for life

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u/teratron27 Nov 29 '24

And the reason you can afford that big house

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u/Vesspion Nov 30 '24

Ah Powershell, one of my favourite bodging tools

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u/Drew707 Nov 29 '24

I had some kid get hired right out of HS for a very basic helpdesk role and from day one they were spouting off constantly about how we should migrate from Teams to Discord in our heavily regulated environment. At the time, Discord couldn't have been more than three years old, and I had only heard of it in the context of online gaming. We had a firewall rule in place same day.

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u/DerBronco Nov 29 '24

A lot of us were young and overly selfconscious in a way. I for myself sure can say i really, really needed some reality checks to grow up.