• sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
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    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.

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      I’m a software engineer, I bring my backpack everywhere. I thought it was about lovin’ the backpack.

      The main difference, mine is green. It doesn’t always have my laptop in it though, I use it for groceries etc too.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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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      i thought it was just making fun of people who put their bags on public transit and has nothing to do with IT outside of a loose association with introverts