As a software engineer I just tell people I’m not the IT guy. I make the things the IT guy uses
Even though I could fix their problem. I just don’t want to
As someone in the IT administrating department, i feel like the new wave of software engineers have a frighteningly low understanding of the system they’re developing on. It appears as they are making plain code monkeys these days
How is your impression on this?
Not the OP but been in IT for a while. The current generation entering the workforce have been using tech since birth but do not seem to understand or care how it actually works. They are generally poor troubleshooters and seem hesitant to ask for help. I figure pandemic lockdowns and remote learning made this worse.
Honestly I get the same feeling. When I was in school from my CS degree a few years ago I noticed how everyone in my classes didn’t know much about how computers communicate with one and another at a low level, amongst other things. My theory is that most people when learning to code nowadays, learn just that and only that. But I suspect with the rise in popularity of high level languages over the past decade(s) is the root cause
Well that’s not great.
I admit, as an IT grease monkey myself, stuff like this about the incoming generation of coders usually foretells that support will need to work harder.
I know not all coders are like this, I’ve met a lot of very competent and capable coders, but if the younger generation that’s graduating into development know very little about the platform, it tells me that college’s are not doing the whole job, and there’s going to be a lot of underskilled developers getting into making production code very soon and likely on an ongoing basis… Which just means the IT support folk, whether sysadmin, network admin, or otherwise, will need to do a lot of work forklifting their skills up to par any time someone goes from college into the workforce.
Not great stuff.
That’s why I told my new neighbors I don’t really understand computers and the only help I could provide is carrying it up the stairs if needed.
I like being the IT guy for people around me. It’s fun :)
Yes, providing work for free, living the dream. People assume that because it’s your profession and/or hobby you want to fix anyone’s problems
I rather learn on other people’s equipment and when I get good at it, I can do the same in my homelab. It’s a win win from my perspective :)
Yeah, I don’t really count running mbam as learning
Malwarebytes anti-malware?
Computer guy, car guy, electronics, camera guy, guy who can lift things guy.
I hate being the IT person, and no I will not fix your printer.
See I like being the it person.
I tell anyone who asks that my consultant rates are $300/hour with a 4 hour minimum - and that I have a specialization in cloud architecture and ops stuff.
For some reason, people with printer/windows/Facebook/phone problems suddenly change the subject…
I like being the it person. I would rather tackle a problem than leave someone else to struggle with it. It makes me hate software especially software that doesn’t play nice with other software.
I like fixing stuff as long as it’s not a printer or networking.
I don’t like fixing printers but I can’t leave it to my dad or the print will be destroyed.
I will fix your printer! Give me a sledge hammer!
The only real fix
I’m pretty decent with computers and I can’t understand printers for the life of me
In one of my IT classes in high school we have a network (not connected to the internet) we we told to setup a printer on the network. My group managed to print to a printer on a different network.
