I’m 48. I have a list of take away’s from life. Not in any order.

  1. it is what it is
  2. you will never earn more than you are worth.
  3. IT ppl don’t make companies any money and are easy to replace.
  4. Work to take better of yourself
  5. You will make mistakes, that’s OK
  6. Don’t stay (work)at a place that you can’t deal with.
  7. Don’t shoot yourself in the foot.
  8. Don’t beat yourself up when you make a mistake, or shoot yourself in the foot.
  9. Always be nice/kind or fight to be, know when you are not.
  10. Always set expectations
  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    IT ppl don’t make companies any money and are easy to replace.

    People are easy to replace but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to replace a good person.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago
    1. Sales came to me one time and asked for an extract of customers from the database, which I gave them.

    But they didn’t ask for any definitions, just a raw extract.

    So I ran it again with some filters:

    We ranked our clients, A, B, and C. With A being the best clients.

    “Here’s a list of all the A-ranked clients, with no past due notifications, who haven’t spent any money with us this quarter, but have open credit.”

    Over a million dollars in open credit sitting on the table waiting for sales to reach out.

    Yeah, but IT “doesn’t make money”. If your IT department isn’t making money, then you’re asking the wrong questions.

  • raldone01@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Here are some extremely deep and very serious quotes I have collected over time:

    Hard work pays off!
    — Torbjörn, Overwatch

    If you see a bomb technician running, follow him. — Space Engineers Loading Screen

    Obesity is literally a problem you can run from.

    Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment we created a lot of value for shareholders.

    You sure do talk a lot for never saying anything.

    Language. It’s going on as we speak.

    60% of the time, it works every time.

    Ask no questions get no lies.

    I am done with self-harm. It’s time to harm others.

    After all is said and done, more has been said than done.

    If it cost me my life man i’d save my only friend. That’s something I could live with. I could take that to the end. — Bittle bones nicky

    I don’t exactly hate you but if you were on fire and I had water I would drink it.

    Therapist: “I am tired of all my patients playing victim.”

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    IT ppl don’t make companies any money

    I mean, I’d say that that’s kind of an artificial distinction. IT is a cost center, but that’s true of a lot of things. You could hypothetically look at the entire company as a set of support personnel acting as a cost center whose role is to enable the sales guys do their job. But…it’s gonna be hard for those sales guys to do their job if they lack product to sell, or if they can’t communicate with the people who they sell product to, or if they aren’t getting their paycheck, or if their office doesn’t have electricity or furniture, or if nobody is coordinating all the people who do the above…

    • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      When it works correctly, IT makes it possible to do more with less.

      I’ve noticed over the years that IT jobs aren’t the first to disappear when the economy tanks.

      There are exceptions, of course. Stupid employers. Ineffective IT people. Sometimes just a shift of focus: if a division goes away, you no longer need the IT staff who supported it

      An intelligent employer understands that talented IT people can let them maintain productivity with fewer staff or increase productivity with the same staff.