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Article #624208Re: Computers, anyone?
From: nob... Scott
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 20:46
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 20:46
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On 30 Jun 2018 00:12:45 -0300, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote: > >nob...@example.org (Scott) writes: > >> 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. Well, my job takes place at a public institute of higher learning. If there's a PA system there, it doesn't work, but aside from that I can't say much else with any real confidence. The sunshine outside seems real enough most days.
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