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Dirty Duty On the Front Lines of IT
snydeq writes "Jobs may be scarce in today's economy, but there's no shortage of nasty IT work — as the third annual installment of InfoWorld's Dirty IT Jobs series demonstrates. From the payroll cop to the coolant jockey to the network sherpa who has to squeeze into rodent-filled spaces and deal with penny-pinching clients, these seven jobs provide further proof that dirty duty abounds on the front lines of IT."
The hardest part of Andrew Bonar's job is convincing the world he's not a spammer. It's not easy. Just having "email deliverability consultant" on his business cards is enough to start the Viagra jokes.
Somehow I don't think Andrew Bonar's job title is the reason for the Viagra jokes.
I have relatives that run pig farms.
Given the grooming habits of most NOC monkeys a server farm isn't that far off.
Can someone please call an ambulance? I think these sentences may have caused my head to explode.
Dislike the Electoral College? Lobby your state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Well, they DO teach software engineers here at JAMK. That's right, programmers who actually hold engineering degrees.
Don't pursue an engineering degree. It'll only make all your elderly relatives think you can master any technology.
Mike Rowe would laugh at every last one of them.
yes but you normaly (BOFH aside) dont have to slughter them and dress the carcass
Well if the original DVD was actually stolen, that makes installing it on 100 computers about 97.3 times worse.
Somehow I doubt ballista-building Romans are going to be posting on Slashdot, though.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Pfft you fool. I always take these jobs so I can see what kind of security system they have, leave a window unlocked, then return later to rob them blind,
just as they rob me blind daily. Hello capitalism !
2) Relying on said single, solitary server for payroll is just begging for disaster. For a highly critical task such as payroll, having one point of failure is beyond stupid. One deserves what one gets if the server dies.
Do you work with me? Sounds like half of the conversation we have here on a regular basis.
I work in the shop of a computer store and at least three times a year someone comes in with an off-the-shelf $400 PC that they need fixed ZOMG YESTERDAY because it's their payroll server and 10-200 people need their paychecks ASAP. (For about half, it's the end of the week. For the other half, it's end of the DAY. And it's 4:45 when they bring the PC in and they close at 5:00.) Then when we tell them that it won't be ready in 15 minutes they get angry. And if their hard drive died, it gets better. The first thing they say when we tell them that their information is, short of a data recovery company's best efforts, gone forever is ALWAYS "But that's the only copy!"
Seriously? Single point of failure, no redundancy, no backup, and any sort of failure means 200 people who want their paychecks being mad at YOU? Might as well just have sent everyone a gift-wrapped torch or pitchfork for Christmas.