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Article #624207Re: Computers, anyone?
From: Mike Spencer
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 03:12
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 03:12
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nob...@example.org (Scott) writes: > On 27 Jun 2018 17:42:54 -0300, Mike Spencer > <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote: > >> Even people who might be expected to know how something works are >> content to whap a software package into a server and never know >> exactly what it's doing or what they've done. > > Voodoo administration. I actually get paid for something like that, > but it involves expensive industry specific software with all kinds of > DRM that's deliberately dense and not made to be understood. It's > scary that I can keep things working without really understanding how, > and scarier still that this meager knowledge is somehow valuable > enough to earn me a living wage. I can't tell if my job's at risk > because I can't explain what I do, or if I'm safe because nobody else > can figure it out either. Yow. Sounds like a science fiction story. My febrile imagination says neither you nor any cow orkers you know have any idea what the business does. You go to work on a private windowless subway car so you don't even know where it is. Once a week there's a long rant over the PA system in a language you can't identify, full of alien clicks and sibilants. And just once, you found what looked like a surgical instrument for getting at the midbrain dropped behind the trash can in the men's room. No? Oh, well, must be weird anyhow. -- Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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