Did working in IT make anyone else hate computers and technology?

I think you underestimate manglements hubris.

Both for me. As bill burr said: if it weren't for pushover nerds selling out their fellow man and working for psychopaths, the world would be a much better place than it is today.

How do they get in your way? How can I sell myself as a manager that won't get in the way without sounding like a pointless hire in interviews?

No, I like it as a hobby and as my job.

I was pretty lucky with my jobs though.

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Nah, I just hate the retards using them.

No, getting a new monitor will not mean a new Windows password.

No, you do not have a virus because you're fucking inept at using any program properly.

Dumb cunts

Kek I can here to post this

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It made me realize even people in their 20s can barely use a computer and lack the intelligence to learn how to use something they literally interact with every single day.

Also most software is bug ridden garbage that companies charge outrageous prices for. I think the most fucking dumb thing I've come across is MS office unauthenticating every time someone changed their password. No in fact Windows won't provide up to date domain credentials to MS office. So you can literally log in to the domain with your new password, open up Word and it will be unauthenticated until you manually put in your domain password.

You have no idea how many "My Outlook stopped working" I have gotten this year.

Working in IT made me hate the people who work IT. I've got all the patience in the world for someone who did something stupid and got a virus. What I can't stand is IT "professionals" who don't know their arse from a hole in the ground but managed to bullshit their way into the job, and think things like "percussive maintenance", changing personal settings on somebody's computer because they don't agree in principle, and using "wipe and reinstall" as the solution to every problem are acceptable, and at the same time belittle their coworkers for not knowing someone they do. If they could take care of all their own computer problems, you wouldn't have a job. Fucking dumbarses.

I always talk about it like its infrastructure. If you want to cheap out on the steel, dont cry to ne when the bridge falls apart

honest to god i hate this shit. i wanted to be a chef when i was a kid, but my mother and father forced me to go into computer engineering (mother literally whipped me with her belt when i just mentioned dropping out and going to work in my favourite restaurant three streets across). ended up getting into IIT Madras for computer science and now i get paid a great salary at a top firm, but that doesn't stop pasty white neckbeard basement-dweller fucks calling me a pajeet, deriding my skills and making dumb toilet jokes. to make things worse my parents take most of my salary and i was forced into an arranged marriage to some fat girl who went to medical school. the worst thing? my parents hired a chef two years ago and i just know that i can a better job. life fucking sucks and it's all thanks to computers and technology.

I don't understand the analogy. Your manager is forcing you to use unreliable shortcuts?

Yes. More than ever before.

I understand now just how bad things really are. Its not so much that tech itself is bad, but that we're really fucking bad at dealing with it on a societal level and using it at scale.

I'm fairly certain most aspects of life would be incredibly better in an alternate timeline where somehow computers never really took off or got invented.

Kinda. I like doing tech stuff still on my own, but I can't deal with it on a professional level. It's just not good.

No. Albeit I've never worked in proper IT I guess. I majored math then grad course in computer graphics dept, so I always worked as CG software engineer either in labs or game industry.
Crunch fucked me up in early 2010's and I hated life for a few years.
But I still love computers and tech. Most times I hate people and avoid having to interact with them though. I guess I could never work support roles.

Why a chef? They're paid almost nothing and work 15hrs a day.
All of them are assholes and angry most of the time.
Just learn to cook bruh, keep IT cucking to pay the bills

Sucks to be a Pajeet huh?

Yes.
I work on a farm - A FUCKING FARM - now.

Try to speak without this terrible indian accent and your life will get better.

So much this, it took a while but I realized I hate people way more than I hate my job.

are you happier?

I've thought about moving to a rural area maybe. I have too much personal autism interest in tech to abandon it entirely, but I would love to make that my only interaction with tech - to do personal fun projects I wanna do. No social media. no expectation of having it, nothing related to job that would need it. Yeaaaaa

It made me hate the people the most, usually the customer or client. You think most people are of average intelligence, boy just wait until they can't turn on their phone....

>at least half of the anons itt

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One of my professors told us about a DBA (Database admin) friend of his who was making mad cash working in banking, but got burnt the fuck out after 15+ years. The guy bought some property and started a snail farm...which I assume he sells to companies that make escargot? (This is in EU)

his breaking point was realizing one day that he hadn't physically seen his daughter for over a week due to the amount of work and travel he had. Now he he makes breakfast for his family in the morning, walks his daughter to school, fucks around with electronics or his snails, has 2nd breakfast with his in-laws, and dedicates the rest of his day to his snails / property / family. Sounds comfy desu but Im not sure I'll ever find a partner

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if you wont find a partner and you enjoy the job wont that means either more time for job or for other hobbies?

No but it made me appreciate the work that goes into good technology and the many ways that projects producing bad technology may have gone wrong.

I've been working in IT for 6 months and literally 50% of my job is fixing "Outlook stopped working". We sent out a detailed email to the entire office on how to fix this in 2 minutes by getting a new app password, but most still can't figure it out and I need to walk them through it.

No. Computers and technology made me hate computers and technology.

Absolutely. I can't help but feel lonely though, it's a consequence of the biological machine I inhabit and the chemicals that run through it. I sometimes wish I was gay or asexual desu

Hated it till I realized how shit other fields are for the same pay and more work

It's literally redpilling yourself on technology. (Matrix redpilling not Jow Forums redpilling)

The more you know about tech, the more you hate tech and know it was a mistake.

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This.
It's a shit industry to work in. OK, it can be well paid and you might get to do some cool stuff, but the people and particularly the managers are just garbage.

been working as a generalist IT guy for like 5 years now doing everything from server maintenance and administration to dealing with users face to face to scripting and programming. If anything i've grown to hate people as it seems most just have ZERO knowledge or motivation to learn anything about the technology that they use everyday. As long as computers exist i'll always have a piss easy job at least. It's wage slavery but it's like being king of the wagies because i get paid to fuck around on a computer all day and can come and go as i please.

>Im not sure I'll ever find a partner
I thought the same thing until I randomly met a girl with similar interests (anime and horror movies) and just said fuck it and invited her over. Don't give up. Keep your room and house clean and organized. If you can have one hobby or activity that takes you outside of your house or a bar you are better off than all the run-of-the-mill netflix and chill men of today.

Thanks user. I appreciate this a lot more than you might think :3

I'm glad I could help. The real deal is to try and keep your living space and lifestyle in a way that you could have a girl enter your life at any time. I don't mean a Glen Quagmire 100% focus on getting laid type deal I just mean no clothes on the floor and no 12 hour days on Jow Forums as I did at one point haha. That will help with your confidence and talking to women. Also, its not just about getting laid or finding a woman period. It's about finding the right woman for you! Think of how pathetic the average normalfag is. You have a lot to offer because of who YOU are.

this

Its my 3rd month into the job and its fucked how depressing office life is. I really only tried to get into IT for the cash to move out.

I got my major in Industrial Technology to work in a factory and make cool shit. Info tech is part of that, but I was having fun at home with networking and running cat5 in my house and had a Netware 4.1 server running on a 486 in my garage. Then I got promoted from the factory floor to factory IT guy. Then the factory shut down and now I work government IT.

I was supposed to be making stuff and wearing steel toes and programing PLCs and CNCs and watching what I helped produce go out the door. Now I unlock Karen's account when she forgets caps lock is on.

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Nope, but I've done things I'd rather don't do again.

Funny, literally never found "women in tech", although I did had to put up with my share of office ladies

Welcome to plumbing, nobody gives a shit about you until they're floating in it.

pretty much this, why earn "mad cash" when you put everything in your life aside.
Unless you literally want to be forever alone, no gf and just mininal interaction with your family until one outlives the other, earn enough cash to buy your way out

No, if anything it made me love them more because people use them in different ways than I do, for better or worse.
Working in IT has made me hate email, email clients, email servers, printers, scanners, copiers, printer scanner copier combination machines, and most of all, paperwork.

Kind of.
Same. And I consider myself to be pretty damn slow.

As an asian your worth is depend on your job/income though. Probably more than west.

>Matrix redpilling not Jow Forums redpilling

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transference

fuck me, yes indeed

Living a life makes me hating everything.

yikes. Hope you get better, lad. Also karen sounds hot.

I can't say it made me hate computers and technology. It made me appreciate the opensource community a lot more, and their commitment. I'm no longer in I.T, but the way I saw computers and technology previously was, that they were enterprise tools first, and consumer products second. The shift in I.T over the two decades has honestly been driven by corporate greed. That greed led these corporations to reversing that paradigm and making their products consumer first, and enterprise tools second. This led to a series of conventions in software, and hardware that made contemporary systems incredibly unintuitive to work with, and maintain from a professional perspective.

Like a lot of the anons in this thread, it just made me hate other people

>IIT Madras
wew

honestly the fact that you browse Jow Forums means that you are probably far, far more skilled that normie "i made a formula on excel" fags. you got it

I am genuinely baffled by how intelligent people turn into mouthbreathers when you put a computer infront of them.

yes
i used to program for a living and i made a fair amount of money but it made me completely hate doing it, eventually leading to me quitting because i realized it ruined my mental health.
now i work in fucking retail making fuck all but at least it's not making me depressed.

how can programming be bad for your mental health??

I hated people in general in the first place so I already knew who's really to blame here.

I feel like if you could just have put your foot down and said no to a couple of things and learned to compromise for your sake, you'd have avoided a lot of problems. Is that too much of a Western approach?

this

quora.com/Does-computer-programming-have-negative-effects-on-your-personality-and-mental-health

medium.com/@PaulDJohnston/coding-burnout-and-mental-health-32715fb5727e

How is that a question? Not everyone's the same.

Pretty much, but mostly because of how much the hardware/software fails in the face of the willful ignorance and stupidity of humanity. I sold my repair biz and became a farmer destined to farm and shitpost. Every IT person I ever met was bitter and debased their customers behind there backs 24/7 like it was a sport.

>tfw starting to get into heliculture this season
See:

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you can't keep doing something you absolutely despise every day for any longer period of time without starting to lose your shit

Maybe they aren't intelligent, just experienced.
One of my grandmas has her own computer, shy buys city building games and plays browser MMOs. And the other is an arrogant cunt with no desire to learn anything, yet is sure all of her computer problems are my deliberative doing.

I seem to be the minority here, but my love for technology has changed. Before I'd get excited looking at all the computer parts and keyboards. The other day when I went to microcenter, I kinda just walked through the PC gaming area, but I found the IP cameras and networking section more interesting.

A lot of the customer facing issues everyone is complaining about aren't as much of an issue the higher up you get. As long as you focus on always learning and improving yourself, you'll be fine for a while.

The IT burnout is real though. A lot of the jobs are very demanding and require a lot of after hours work. Also, a lot of engineers get tired of having to keep learning to keep up with the industry after 20+years.

I'm hoping a lot of that changes with the whole DevOps culture shift. True DevOps (not just hiring a guy with DevOps in his title, actually having a blameless culture) takes a lot of the pain out of working in IT.

I work for a small company where there are four of us: two experts, one guy who's the best friend of one of the experts, and me. So I get shat on every daily for being a worthless incompetent. But the two experts are constantly complaining about customers who can't figure out complicated web hosting shit, but when I ask what they're talking about, they're fine explaining it to me. They just don't like explaining it to customers. It's weird.

It's nothing to do with sexual orientation. I have a friend who is unironically a gay incel. He's permanently seething that other gay guys don't want to fuck him. It's comedy gold.

Email clients and email in general are the absolute worst cancer in technology. None of that shit makes any sense.

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha lmao you retard

Yep, if you like computers and technology, then just keep it as a hobby, my job made me hate the very last thing I enjoyed.

are you 12?

Now im fresh in the field, so maybe I havent had time to burn out. But it hasnt made me hate computers. I like helping people and I like tech so this position is the best of both worlds for me. That being said, Im constantly amazed at how little people even TRY. Most people cant be assed to even read a list of instructions. Yesterday one of my coworkers got a new macbook, and a little bit after I got it set up for them they sent me a slack message saying the clock was wrong. No biggee, i had forgotten to set the timezone. I told her to open the mac's settings menu and look for a clock.
She didnt know where the settings menu was. I told her it was in the dock. Said she couldnt find it. I told her to look for the grey gears. She managed to find it then. I then made the mistake of telling her to open the time settings. She couldnt find it. Realizing my mistake, I told her to look for a clock. Luckily she knew I meant in the menu, not on the desktop. She managed to find that. So i told her to go to the timezone settings. Not happening. At this point shes lost beyond belief, so i walk to her desk to help her in person instead of over slack. At the top of the clock settings theres a big button that says "timezone". I crumple internally, and then change the timezone for her.
Every step she needed to take was quite clear. And this is mac OS we're talking about, its as normie-friendly as you can get. Yet she was of completing even the most basic task like clicking a big gui button. Shes not a stupid person in any other regard that ive seen, shes very good at her job. And to be fair she at least realizes shes clueless, which is more than can be said for some people. But it just amazes me how simple tasks can just cause peoples brains to shut down when its on a computer, even when its a system designed for those people.

God no, i loved computers and technology even more. Are you sure you are on the right board, OP?

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you'll get burned out eventually
get out of customer facing helpdesk monkey jobs as quickly as possible

This this this. Im working it at a financial media company, so theres a ton of proprietary tech that we use because theres little in the field that is open. My god is it obnoxious dealing with it. Forget documentation. There is none, and when there is its barebones to the point of uselessness. And why the fuck do companies make it so hard to download their shit? I mean I know why, piracy and shit, but my god. Theres no reason i cant at least download an installer and then put in any credentials.
How anyone uses proprietary shit on the daily is beyond me.

no, it made me love the job and the technology even more. Maybe you should have done something more suited to your aptitude, like office cleaning work, or wanking men off for money

>to make things worse my parents take most of my salary
You have a big salary, just move out you retarded cunt

it can be insanely stressful if you get stuck

Yup, it sure did to me. I already hated humans so now I hate everything.

Reddit is that way.

>his breaking point was realizing one day that he hadn't physically seen his daughter for over a week due to the amount of work and travel he had.
I work at a consulting firm, and have had major IT companies tell me that otherwise perfect candidates with 25+ years of experience aren't acceptable because they mentioned wanting a work/life balance, and didn't want to travel 100%, M-F for a 6 month project.

It can be a soul killing industry, and the people calling the shots are either underatanding but beholden to someone higher up on the food chain, or are soulless autists that can't understand that not everyone can be paid to not have a life.

What do you mean log in with your new password but then you have to manually enter your password to make office work? Manually put in the password where?

yep

(excluding younglings and some hard-asses)
IT in its current form is bugmen territory

no one worth their salt is in "the industry"

which is good news, because consequences
an industry propped up on shallow shit won't last

i think open source will come out on top of things but i might be wrong

What do you mean a new app password? How do you do this?

I plan on bringing up in any position I'm interviewing for that I'm not here to fill the role of 2 people, been there done that and it's unacceptable. I'll walk before I sacrifice my personal life for some employer. I've learned that managers often exploit people who let themselves be exploited and ignore the people who don't put up with their shit. There's enough positions available where it's a worker's economy even if most people don't believe it.

We use Office 365 so licenses are tied to their domain accounts. Under File>Office account you'll usually see an error message saying it can't authenticate and it will ask you to put in your organization email and password which is exactly what people use to log into the computer. In my mind Microsoft services should be seamless because isn't that basically the entire point of entering their ecosystem? If it can't authenticate it should automatically check using the domain password you logged in with.

>Saturday is almost over already an you put off all your chores for tomorrow
:^) happy weekend slaves

No, thinking about technology's effect on society did.

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It just made me hate "open" source software.

Does this apply to non-office 365 apps? I do get this issue a lot from users but they're not on 365. Usually I just remove their mail profile and re-add it. Sometimes in the bottom right of outlook it says "outlook wants to authenticate" or something like that and you just click it.

I ran into the issue but much more rarely, we used exchange servers before and like you said you can see on the bottom right it's not synced. Press that and it will bring up the white password box and that used to fix it. Now it will literally sit there and ask you over and over what your new password is but continue to use the old stored password until you go into the Office Account settings in any of the Office programs and manually set it.

My first question is now always "Did you change your password recently"

I never noticed anything to do with password in office account settings, it's there on non-0365 you say?

I just graduated HS and want to get into the sysadmin field, I have some experience with setting up very simple Debian file servers but other than that I'm practically clueless aside from basic webhosting stuff. What does the "Enterprise" use and do. I'm honestly very lost.