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I feel there is not enough Satire IT book. Someone ought to take the shit, and by that I mean realistically picture the industry.

by keyle 2y ago

isoprophlex 2y ago
So, repackage the energy of https://ludic.mataroa.blog/ https://ludic.mataroa.blog/ into a novel? I have recently been thinking about fleshing out a story about a completely incompetent agile-type scrumlord, an unlikeable opportunist who is, tragically, unable to better himself in the institutionally broken system that is IT right now. Oh and also he's sad about WFH because he has a poorly controlled fetish about smelling the air under people's desks.
- keyle 2y ago
  I meant something along the line of non-fiction. Actual IT book. In your example I'd name it Agile in the real world, with a perfect legit cover, and as you go through the chapters, it starts descending into a complete circus and the joke that it can be.
  - BizarroLand 2y ago
    I did some backend and devops stuff for a while and it can be insane. On the one hand, I went to college for many years and spent so much time getting certifications to build my resume. Then when I finally became a sysadmin in a mid/large company, for me to update a linux server I had to ask permission from the cloud group to do so, which took 8 weeks and required 3 rounds of project planning, time estimation, writing dozens of emails and ultimately an escalation over the cloud teams head to the division CIO to ultimately coerce them to provision a new linux server rather than give me appropriate sudo permissions on one I was already "supposed" to manage. Ultimately I ended up getting the job done. And then, other than a couple of intense temporary redeployments as a sharepoint frontend developer, which sucked, 90% of my job was to promptly respond to emails, attend 2-5 30 minute to 1 hour meetings a week where I was asked and said very little, and other than that about 20 minutes of work a day. Playing with my home lab was more intellectually challenging and tech related than my actual tech job, and I probably spent more actual time doing that than actual time doing actual work in my real job.

I feel there is not enough Satire IT book. Someone ought to take the shit, and by that I mean realistically picture the industry.

by keyle 2y ago

I feel there is not enough Satire IT book. Someone ought to take the shit, and by that I mean realistically picture the industry.

isoprophlex 2y ago

So, repackage the energy of https://ludic.mataroa.blog/ https://ludic.mataroa.blog/ into a novel? I have recently been thinking about fleshing out a story about a completely incompetent agile-type scrumlord, an unlikeable opportunist who is, tragically, unable to better himself in the institutionally broken system that is IT right now. Oh and also he's sad about WFH because he has a poorly controlled fetish about smelling the air under people's desks.

keyle 2y ago
I meant something along the line of non-fiction. Actual IT book. In your example I'd name it Agile in the real world, with a perfect legit cover, and as you go through the chapters, it starts descending into a complete circus and the joke that it can be.
- BizarroLand 2y ago
  I did some backend and devops stuff for a while and it can be insane. On the one hand, I went to college for many years and spent so much time getting certifications to build my resume. Then when I finally became a sysadmin in a mid/large company, for me to update a linux server I had to ask permission from the cloud group to do so, which took 8 weeks and required 3 rounds of project planning, time estimation, writing dozens of emails and ultimately an escalation over the cloud teams head to the division CIO to ultimately coerce them to provision a new linux server rather than give me appropriate sudo permissions on one I was already "supposed" to manage. Ultimately I ended up getting the job done. And then, other than a couple of intense temporary redeployments as a sharepoint frontend developer, which sucked, 90% of my job was to promptly respond to emails, attend 2-5 30 minute to 1 hour meetings a week where I was asked and said very little, and other than that about 20 minutes of work a day. Playing with my home lab was more intellectually challenging and tech related than my actual tech job, and I probably spent more actual time doing that than actual time doing actual work in my real job.