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The life of an IT Guy (f8n-ipfs-production.imgix.net)
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[–] [email protected] 121 points 2 days ago (23 children)

Everyone talking about the pain of being on call, I thought the comic was about how much IT guys love their backpacks...

I don't work in IT.

[–] whotookkarl 53 points 2 days ago (3 children)

To be fair my bag is rad. Also it felt kinda futuristic hot spotting my work laptop to my phone to connect to some servers halfway across the country while in my car in a parking lot, but that wears off pretty quickly after a couple times.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Once everyone figures out your can fix things pretty much regardless of where you are, they start to form the expectation that you're going to do that every single time.

[–] quafeinum 4 points 2 days ago

Well they dont know how long it takes to fix stuff, so I shall do it whenever I feel like it eventually.

“Yeah sorry someone upstream broke the interconnect compiler to our computation fabric, I send a patch and have to wait for the developer to merge it”

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