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.
But the world won’t end.
Production planner here. Eventually you will notice that things are done inefficiently, not in a sensible order or timely manner. It’s gonna be really annoying but the world won’t collapse.
Oh no, the Business Systems Analysts are gone. Whatever shall we do. Society won’t survive like this. Who’s gonna analyze business requirements for systems. A tragedy, to be sure. 😶
Yeah. My team will keep producing software, but from now on its whatever the hell we feel like writing.
The good news is everything comes with a pinball mini-game Easter egg.
The bad news is nothing actually works.
Actually… This might be another one where I’m already living in this timeline and every BA I’ve met was my personal delusion created by my own brain trying to protect itself from the madness…
Please tell me the mini-game will work at least!
Just reminds us of how much of a luxury you are and how much we appreciate having you around :)
I’m a sysadmin. So like two days tops before absolutely everything stops working, and we resort to loin cloths and spears.
Senior SysAdmin here.
48 hours sounds about right. I usually get an email on day 1 of any holiday, and a panicked call on day 2 because something is down.
By day 3 all the gaps are covered by other admins after I point them at the existing documentation, that noone even looked at.
I came here to make this exact comment except I was gonna mention the Stone Age and I’d give it about a week.
Honestly if the AWS system admins all died at once I think that’ll probably be enough to take us down at this point.
I’m a web developer, so… Not me, but there are people who manage important web portals, for healthcare and security stuff.
Food service? Dead within days…
Food service? Dead within days…
I mean. You know people cook at home too right?
Sorry, I meant Americans
That’s fair.
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Admin paper pushers coordinate so others can have frictionless meetings. Most likely all meetings will be awful, and initiatives will not have approvals so fraud will propagate quickly
Oh so business as usual then?
You say this as a joke, but it will not be business as usual. Trust is HUGE when it comes to investments. Without admin, trust goes down, investors become misers, total wealth decreases, and everyone will have the same credibility as a scammer on the phone talking about Nigerian princes etc. So it may not go to a barter economy, but several parts will stagnate because they can’t trust investing in their own company’s growth.
Lots of dead people. Paramedics help many.
Thank you for what you do!
You betcha.
I’m a student… the world wouldn’t end but it also wouldn’t have a future.
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If all machine operators vanished anything mass produced would stop getting made.
If we thought catalytic converters were being stolen now, now no new ones are being made!
I do SAP development writing ABAP and making forms.
SAP would go bankrupt because their core product is written in an internal language that’s ridiculously complicated and takes decades to fully learn.
The businesses would keep using their systems for many years and eventually migrate to better solutions.
So the world definitely won’t end for me either.
My condolences, lol
Sorry, I don’t know what SAP or ABAP mean.
I do and it means they get paid large amounts of money and that they can translate a very select list of words from German to English.
The “large amounts of money” part only applies when you work at SAP or far enough away from them.
Doesn’t matter. The world doesn’t depend on it.
It would suck for Walldorf’s tax revenue.
Sewage in the street by days end. Resurging preventable diseases long thought vanished by the developed world shortly thereafter.
I love you and greatly appreciate the potentially smelly and possibly unsafe work you do.
Thank you. It’s not as bad as most people think. But there is a cornucopia of smells that one must acclimate to.
Farm worker. Food shortage, widespread food shortage. People would have to change their diets within a few weeks, and learn to hunt to avoid starvation in a few months. Unstaffed farms would be cleaned out for immediate food over time, and the price of anything edible not raised on a farm of some kind would shoot to the moon. Any automated farming that a landowner could run would be the way to go, for lack of workers.
I’m the political advisor to a politician…
You don’t want to know
Why?
That’s the scariest timeline yet:
“Hey where’s that piece of paper they gave me before they all disappeared?”
“Which one?”
“The one that said not to do crimes, or whatever. I need to check something.”
“Is it a crime sir?”
“Uh…Nevermind. I’m sure it’ll be fine. Let’s go do this.”
There would be a lot fewer old people by the end of the month… (ICU Nurse)
Ah cripes, I’m literally a “software developer.” Modern civilization is so, so fucked.
That would be a very strange death as well.
I feel like biggest problem would be hackers wouldn’t vanish, but no developers would be around to fix issues.
Like tomorrow and the next day would feel the same as today.
But what about when a new Microsoft exploit is found? Or a medical software can’t handle a new treatment?
We wouldn’t die instantly, but first world country tech would just slowly start to betray us day by day without updates.
Trade, logistics rely on software maintenance, I guess.
Yeah, software dev disappearance I feel like would result in a slow Jenga game of things becoming more unstable until they all fall down at once. Unless we figure that the world will got completely ballistic at the prospect of multiple millions of people just vanishing, then the knock on effects won’t really matter.
