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Sometimes, it's backwards (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

In my experience a lot of IT people are unaware of anything outside of their bubble. It's a big problem in a lot of technical industries with people who went to school to learn a trade.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 23 hours ago

The biggest problem with the bubble that IT insulates themselves into is that if you don't users will never submit tickets and will keep coming to you personally, then get mad when their high priority concern sits for a few days because you were out of office but the rest of the team got no tickets because the user decided they were better than a ticket.

If people only know how to summon you through the ancient ritual of ticket opening with sufficient information they'll follow that ritual religiously to summon you when needed. If they know "oh just hit up Rob on teams, he'll get you sorted" the mysticism is ruined and order is lost

Honestly I say this all partially jokingly. We do try to insulate ourselves because we know some users will try to bypass tickets if given any opportunity to do so, but there is very much value in balancing that need with accessability and visibility. So the safe option is to hide in your basement office and avoid mingling, but thats also the option that limits your ability to improve yourself and your organization

[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

I meant knowledge wise. Many people in technical industries lack the ability to diagnose issues because they don't have a true understanding of what they actually do. They follow diagnostic trees or subscribe to what I call "the rain dance" method where they know something fixes a problem but they didn't really know why. If you mention anything outside of their small reality they will refuse to acknowledge it's existence.

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