I’m a support engineer for dental software. So difficult issues won’t get immediate resolutions, and instead development will actually have to fix things because offices will be crying at them for a fix instead of at me.

But the world won’t end.

  • @[email protected]
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    I’m a sysadmin. So like two days tops before absolutely everything stops working, and we resort to loin cloths and spears.

    • @thorbot
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      I came here to make this exact comment except I was gonna mention the Stone Age and I’d give it about a week.

    • @ericbombOP
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      Honestly if the AWS system admins all died at once I think that’ll probably be enough to take us down at this point.

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      Senior SysAdmin here.

      48 hours sounds about right. I usually get an email on day 1 of any holiday, and a panicked call on day 2 because something is down.

      By day 3 all the gaps are covered by other admins after I point them at the existing documentation, that noone even looked at.

  • slazer2au
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    Network Engineer.

    The internet becomes more stable because we stop fiddling with the internet routing protocols.

    • @MajorHavoc
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      71 year ago

      I knew it! /s

      I’m only joking in the kindest way. Please don’t turn off my precious Internet.

  • netburnr
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    311 year ago

    I am in Management. Everything will carry on fine.

  • @Meptastik
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    271 year ago

    I’m a digital marketer. The world would instantly start improving probably. you’re welcome.

  • metaStatic
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    My job title is “Team Member” my industry is “Warehousing” the world literally ends before the day is out.

    • @ericbombOP
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      101 year ago

      Since you’re now unemployed, wanna join my gang and try to take over the local ware house district full of rice so we can try and survive until humanity has fallen and we can survive on foraging?

  • The Giant Korean
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    I’m an IT director. Things begin running more smoothly.

  • @Usernameblankface
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    Farm worker. Food shortage, widespread food shortage. People would have to change their diets within a few weeks, and learn to hunt to avoid starvation in a few months. Unstaffed farms would be cleaned out for immediate food over time, and the price of anything edible not raised on a farm of some kind would shoot to the moon. Any automated farming that a landowner could run would be the way to go, for lack of workers.

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    Oh no, the Business Systems Analysts are gone. Whatever shall we do. Society won’t survive like this. Who’s gonna analyze business requirements for systems. A tragedy, to be sure. 😶

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      Just reminds us of how much of a luxury you are and how much we appreciate having you around :)

    • @MajorHavoc
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      Yeah. My team will keep producing software, but from now on its whatever the hell we feel like writing.

      The good news is everything comes with a pinball mini-game Easter egg.

      The bad news is nothing actually works.

      Actually… This might be another one where I’m already living in this timeline and every BA I’ve met was my personal delusion created by my own brain trying to protect itself from the madness…

      • @Aliendelarge
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        Please tell me the mini-game will work at least!

  • @[email protected]
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    Sewage in the street by days end. Resurging preventable diseases long thought vanished by the developed world shortly thereafter.

    • @Demonbooker
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      I love you and greatly appreciate the potentially smelly and possibly unsafe work you do.

      • @[email protected]
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        Thank you. It’s not as bad as most people think. But there is a cornucopia of smells that one must acclimate to.

  • McBinary
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    There would be a lot fewer old people by the end of the month… (ICU Nurse)

    • @ericbombOP
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      Would auto pilot not keep them in the air for awhile?

      I’m not saying it’ll be okay, just wouldn’t it be more of a creeping dread as panicked flight staff would call air traffic control for help? Then they would be in utter disarray and overwhelmed trying to guide hundreds of planes to land without an experienced pilot? Maybe a few would have retired pilots on board that with a bit of guidance from air traffic they could land…

      • @yokonzo
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        Yeah but as soon as they get in the flight seat they would blip out of existence. Also I’m not sure but would anyone even be able to open the doors?

      • @MrBakedBeansOnToast
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        En-route nothing would happen for a while correct. Plane goes on as long as it has a programmed route to follow and fuel to stay in the air. But keep in mind that, around the planet, thousands of airplanes are about to land right now. Landings are like 95% flown manually so if all those are suddenly empty in the cockpit they’ll crash pretty much immediately.

    • edric
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      Commercial? How’s your job? Just curious coming from someone who once wanted to be a pilot.

      • @MrBakedBeansOnToast
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        Happiness depends heavily on where in the world you are employed by which airline and what you make of it with your personal attitude. The spectrum of work/life balance is huge and payment can range from negative (pay us to allow you to fly for us) to big bucks (who has the time to spend this much?). Different labour rights in different countries like being fired and deported on a whim or strong unions and rights that protect you almost no matter what. How much free time do you have? Both at destination and at home, what is more important for whom? I had to retire due to a brain cancer diagnosis. So medical stuff is another slippery slope. Back pains? Migranes? You’re on your way out. I loved the job though. I was flexible enough to not be bothered by last minute changes to my flight roster or irregular sleep schedules. Not having kids and a stay-at-home wife helped with that as well. (If your partner works as well, the time you actually see each other can get scarce.) This also applies to friends. Wanna go out with me on a Friday? Should have told me two months ago so I could have requested off days… you get the idea.

  • @pHr34kY
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    121 year ago

    I’m a software dev.

    Looking at this thread, Lemmy’s userbase would halve.

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      51 year ago

      There are applications where we actually have to adhere to standards.

      • @TootSweet
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        Yeah, my post was mostly tongue-in-cheek. (I used to be the official-ish PCI guy where I worked, so I know about the standards to which you refer.) But at the same time, if software engineers didn’t exist, we soon wouldn’t have NFTs or DRM on cars, coffee makers, and garage doors or secret TV signals for spying on you via your smartphone etc.

        • @SpaceNoodle
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          You don’t know what standard I’m talking about.

          You also have no idea how much of your daily life relies on software.

          • @TootSweet
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            You’re not taking what I’ve been saying the way I meant it.