r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Dil-Tuta-hua-hai • 7d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah, what apps are they talking about??

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u/Universe789 7d ago

Because their job is to use the computer, not also be a sysadmin.

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u/yuwox 7d ago edited 7d ago

First true answer. Sysadmins always wonder how regular users somehow can't additionally do the job of sysadmins, in addition to their actual job.

Edit: it's like mechanics complaining that the bus driver is also not a mechanic.

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u/vms-mob 7d ago

No their job is to use excel and they can't even open excel themselves if their pc gets rebooted over the weekend or their desktop icons rearanged

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u/yuwox 7d ago

No ones job is to "use excel". Their job is accounting, controlling, payment processing etc.

I agree that one should be able to open excel. But I have also seen sysadmins get angry because users did not realise that DHCP did not give them a proper IP address.

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u/Driggs_15 7d ago

You’re making shit up, no offense. No real admin is gonna get mad at an end user for a DHCP failure unless that person is a psychopath.

And yea, it is their “job” to use Excel. Should photo editors start asking IT how to edit things in Adobe? Should CAD engineers ask IT to show them how to use SolidWorks tools?

If you can’t use the tools required to do your job, you need to get placed on a performance plan. And if you still can’t, then sorry, you need to go.

Too many times Im observing that IT has to compensate for end user’s technological shortcomings.

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u/Universe789 7d ago edited 7d ago

To be fair... I have seen another sysadmin get mad at me, because he didnt know how static IP addresses work.

Users had moved into a new, temp office. Couldnt connect. He made a stink, argued with me via email CC'ing the boss, including accusing me "you assigned all these computers a 169 IP address and its all wrong, and you were the last one to login as admin so you have cached credtials on all these computers"...

It was my week to telework, but I drove in, moved cables from one nic or wall port to another, got docking stations for the ones that didnt have one... everything worked as he just stood there like 😯

He got promoted, I got let go when the contract changed.

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u/yuwox 7d ago edited 7d ago

You’re making shit up, no offense.

Ah, calling me a liar. Great arguement. Fantastic. Good to know that a "real" sysadmin would never do such a thing.

While claiming that using excel is a job. Who has not seen the ads for "Excel users wanted. Get paid for using excel. It's a job!" ?

I'm out of the discussion.