Everyone with your exact job title in your industry vanishes, how long until awful things happen?
I’m a support engineer for dental software. So difficult issues won’t get immediate resolutions, and instead development will actually have to fix things because offices will be crying at them for a fix instead of at me.
I’m an adjunct professor. If every adjunct professor disappeared today, universities would instantly be better for students and professors. Administrators would hate it, though.
What will get us here in the US first? Exploits discovered to banking infrastructure that can’t be patched? A new virus or ransomware that AVs and firewalls can’t be updated to stop? Navigation software for satellites and boats not being able to be updated to deal with ever changing environments stopping trade world wide? All our medical data going poof because an auto purge feature of old data forgets how to count?
Who knows! Tomorrow may look the same as today, 3 weeks from now might look about the same, but sooner or later we’ll basically all be running windows XP.
Paramedic. A lot of people would die at home or on the streets. Many hospitals would be overwhelmed with patients that can’t leave. Nursing homes would have to actualy take care of and treat people for once. Drunk collage kids will be allowed to go home peacefully. Police will not be able to pass off uncooperative people to hospitals for a psych evaluation as easy.
For real though, it would not be fun for the world.
Would be nice if we where treated and paid like we matter.
If it’s just paramedics and not EMTs then it won’t be as bad. People will still die though.
Suddenly games wouldn’t see a localised version anymore. To play anything that requires language comprehension, you’d have to study the source language.
This thankfully doesn’t impact me personally, but people would lose out on some cool content. Not everyone finds it fun to spend years to acquire a language to the degree some games require.
Quality engineer. Eventually someone would get around to the work I do. But there would be a lot of avoidable slowdowns and stoppages as parts and processes breakdown without the function that intentionally searches out and fixes problems.
Eventually problems would get painful enough, a person would get assigned to fix them.
And then another problem and eventually another person assigned to fix.
And then hey, wouldn’t it more efficient if we assign a person to go after all these problems? And what if they could even be proactive enough to fix problems before they got out the door? And what if we called that person’s function Quality?
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