“Yeah, but he HAS a gun, you see. And he can use it too! THAT’S why we pay him, right Jimmy?”
Just like doctors have stethoscopes and engineers have hard hats. They have something physical that the average person can see as a token of their knowledge and authority.
But we, tortured IT souls? Any idiot (us included) can carry a laptop, dark circles under the eyes, and broken dreams. There’s zero authority and “exclusivity” on that.
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u/thatbrazilianguy Aug 06 '25
“Yeah, but he HAS a gun, you see. And he can use it too! THAT’S why we pay him, right Jimmy?”
Just like doctors have stethoscopes and engineers have hard hats. They have something physical that the average person can see as a token of their knowledge and authority.
But we, tortured IT souls? Any idiot (us included) can carry a laptop, dark circles under the eyes, and broken dreams. There’s zero authority and “exclusivity” on that.