Comment on The only thing doing tech tests has taught me is that I'm too stupid to do the job I've been doing professionally for the better part of 2 decades.

• falsem@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There's a story/joke about a company that has a large, important industrial machine that stopped working. They call in a specialist engineer, who walks up, hits it with a hammer, and it starts working again. He then hands the manager a bill for $2000. Incensed, the manager demands an itemized invoice because this was outrageous for something that took 2 minutes. The engineer kindly obliges: hammer $5, knowing where to use the hammer $1995.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep, use to work somewhere where we had a technician that would spend a whole lot of time just walking around, noting where we had blown light bulbs and stuff like that and he told me something similar “What I’m doing now is not what I’m paid for, that’s just me being nice to my employer, what I’m paid for is knowing how to solve the real issues when shit really hits the fan.”

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    • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sysadmins can similarly have a hard time. After all, if they’re doing their job right, there are no problems.

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  • roembol@lemmy.roembol.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember reading that as well, wasn’t it on a ship?

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  • 0_0j@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    😂

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• lysdexic@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But since then, i came to a revelation, than it takes years of experience to knw which wire to touch

  Might be, might not be. A popped capacitor doesn’t require a lot of skill to spot.

  Not all jobs are rocket surgery.

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• jeremyparker@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imo “scammer” is the wrong word. “Hustler” is more accurate in my experience.

  Under certain circumstances, those iFixit places are exactly what it says on the tin - but if rent’s coming up and they haven’t had many walk ins, you might end up with a new Flux Capacitor in your JavaScript Microlibrary, since the old one looks like it started sending unhandled exceptions to the teraflop reader - but don’t worry, they put in a new 6-charge teraflop reader that should future proof it for years.

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• falsem@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There's a story/joke about a company that has a large, important industrial machine that stopped working. They call in a specialist engineer, who walks up, hits it with a hammer and it starts working again. He then hands the manager a bill for $2000. Incensed, the manager demands an itemized receipt because this was outrageous for something that took 2 minutes. The engineer kindly obliges: hammer $5, knowing where to use the hammer $1995.

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  • 0_0j@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Okay

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