As a designer who turned into a developer, had to do minor server stuff, manage my own freelance projects and debug it all…
I quit and started working in old cars and handyman stuff. Not a Luddite, but fuck marketing, temporarily organizing pixels, and spying on users for pennies.
My 2026 update after the industry wide layoffs over the past couple years and continues with ai over leveraged taking more down with it would be sysadmin replaced with DevOps, qa and designer replaced with developer, and throw some infosec theater on at the end.
Pretty sure you got that backwards, bud. Everytime there's a problem the sysadmins can't solve they immediately blame it on the network. Then we gotta dig out our sysadmin hats and fix it for them.
I have found they are the most likely to have lower computer literacy than they need to be for their job. It's not optional, no SysAdmin should have to babysit someone.
I have no idea what you are on about. I don't care either. You have said less than nothing and I'm gonna ignore you from now on. You seem like management. Full of shit.
For the last five years I'm been the one man show. There are only five sites and around a hundred and twenty machines. Really a low effort job truth be told. I've finally got rid of all the 'managed solutions' and things rarely break as a result.
The "seen by project managers" row is so accurate it hurts. It needs to be updated with a caption that reads "chatGPT please tell me how to replace this person with a subscription".
67 Comments
superduperpirate@lemmy.world · 110 pts · 192d
As a former sysadmin I agree with this chart
yaroto98@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 192d
As former QA I also agree with this chart.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de · 33 pts · 192d
As a designer who turned into a developer, had to do minor server stuff, manage my own freelance projects and debug it all…
I quit and started working in old cars and handyman stuff. Not a Luddite, but fuck marketing, temporarily organizing pixels, and spying on users for pennies.
shadshack@feddit.online · 35 pts · 192d
As a current sysadmin I concur.
Mellow12@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 191d
Sysadmin 4 Life.
realitista@lemmus.org · 47 pts · 192d
As a former sysadmin, I approve this message.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 41 pts · 192d
Sysadmins for the win!
Yup. It's perfect.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 32 pts · 192d
This image is older than current CS students
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 191d
My 2026 update after the industry wide layoffs over the past couple years and continues with ai over leveraged taking more down with it would be sysadmin replaced with DevOps, qa and designer replaced with developer, and throw some infosec theater on at the end.
OR3X@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 191d
As a network admin, the sysadmins are a bunch of fucking monkeys.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 191d
Don't be jealous just because we can do your job as well as our own.
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 191d
even the AV guys can do network these days
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 191d
Yeah they are great at getting the vlan access just right. Right?
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 191d
juuuuuussstttttttt r- oh fuck its gone.
its always (m)DNS
Magnum@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 191d
The cleaning lady runs the network at our company.
OR3X@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 191d
Pretty sure you got that backwards, bud. Everytime there's a problem the sysadmins can't solve they immediately blame it on the network. Then we gotta dig out our sysadmin hats and fix it for them.
9bananas@feddit.org · 12 pts · 191d
probably highly dependent on your work environment:
it's the exact opposite at our office...
head>desk
dbtng@eviltoast.org · 3 pts · 191d
It's DNS.
Mellow12@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 191d
As a Sysadmin the network admins are constantly breaking our comms, so fuck is both, right?
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 192d
Doesn't look like project managers come off good to anyone, then. Even themselves.
regedit@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 191d
Cause their one good generative AI prompt from being replaced!
khanh@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 191d
I love how designers are seen as infants twice (and a monkey once)
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 191d
and as evil megalomaniac once
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev · 8 pts · 191d
I have found they are the most likely to have lower computer literacy than they need to be for their job. It's not optional, no SysAdmin should have to babysit someone.
antsu@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 191d
As a former sysadmin, this is correct.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 191d
My dad’s a sysadmin, this is definitely correct.
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev · 3 pts · 191d
As a current one I concur.
Zannsolo@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 191d
Top left should be a clown, source I'm a developer.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 192d
Its true.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 192d
IT is true
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 192d
Sysadmins don't give a fuck about the lesser disciplines.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 192d
Yes, but can you tell me what “IT” stands for?
mech@feddit.org · 6 pts · 191d
Involuntary Twitching?
regedit@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 191d
Itchy Taint, if you're me!
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 191d
tea tree soap helps with that
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 191d
Can you? I've been a sysadmin for thirty years. Guess.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 191d
What does it stand for? What doesn't it stand for?
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 191d
Unexpected IT Crowd.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 191d
MehBlah@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 191d
I have no idea what you are on about. I don't care either. You have said less than nothing and I'm gonna ignore you from now on. You seem like management. Full of shit.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 191d
Yes, yes I can see what you're getting at. But the specific letters: “I” “T”, what do they stand for?
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 190d
It stands for, it stands for commitment. It stands for audacity. It stands for courage in the face of-
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 191d
In my job, I put on all five of those hats in the same day.
mech@feddit.org · 11 pts · 191d
And how do you see yourself?
wabafee@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 191d
I guess a corporate slave /s
Bosht@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 191d
No need for the /s brother. We are all wage slaves.
Magnum@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 191d
He's the stupid guy.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 191d
For the last five years I'm been the one man show. There are only five sites and around a hundred and twenty machines. Really a low effort job truth be told. I've finally got rid of all the 'managed solutions' and things rarely break as a result.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 192d
The "seen by project managers" row is so accurate it hurts. It needs to be updated with a caption that reads "chatGPT please tell me how to replace this person with a subscription".
JamBandFan1996@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 191d
As long as we can all agree users are the worst
Agent641@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 191d
I disagree. I am designer, project manager, QA, and Sysadmin at my small company, and I am the worst.
moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 192d
I know one of the people in this chart, small web
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 192d
High pixel version?
AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 192d
Nah you get lower pixel version
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 191d
You must be a sys admin. I used to be and that was my first instinct.
regedit@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 191d
Need to stop reading lemmy in the morning before my wife gets up so I stop waking her from laughter!
AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 190d
You're welcome
atomicorange@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 191d
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 190d
jade52@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 191d
Hi I'm a designer and this image is correct.
DragonAce@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 191d
I was a sysadmin for decades and I can confirm this is pretty accurate.
etchinghillside@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 192d
To be fair - fuck sysadmins.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 191d
Not if we fuck you first.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev · 7 pts · 191d
While you think sysadmins are your enemy, you are you own enemy and we are just trying to save you from yourself.
JamBandFan1996@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 191d
Fine. As long as you hate the users more
regedit@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 191d
As a current sysadmin, yes!
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 191d
TIL I am a Project Manager.