bynkii,
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Today I was reminded of the best description of IT I have ever encountered: My first IT job, my boss explained IT this way:

“It’s like being a doctor & you’ve a patient sayings:

“Doctor, it hurts when I stick a fork in my eye.”

You, being a doctor, use your knowledge & expertise & tell the patient to not stick forks in their eyes.

They say: “You misunderstand: I want you to make it stop hurting.”

IT in a nutshell: the unending quest to make it not hurt when they stick a fork in their eye.”

JessTheUnstill,

@bynkii
You replace their metal fork with a plastic one designed for kids and put safety goggles on their face to TRY to make it harder for them to hurt themselves by sticking a fork in their eye. 2 weeks later, find they have attached a rusty metal fork that they found in the garbage dump to the end of their plastic fork with duct tape, have cut the lenses out of the safety goggles, jammed the fork in their eye, and then tried to hide from you because they're afraid that you'll take their metal fork away and make them wear non-broken safety goggles.

Then they tell your boss that it's all your fault when they lose their eye, because if you weren't such a quack, you could have figured out how to make their eye not hurt when they stab it with a fork.

inthehands,
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@bynkii
The only thing missing from this description is the phrase “can’t you just”

atomicbird,
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@bynkii @aijaz The way I put it was that I saw users repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot. I wanted to help improve their aim. They wanted bulletproof shoes.

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