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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.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm a sysadmin. So like two days tops before absolutely everything stops working, and we resort to loin cloths and spears.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I came here to make this exact comment except I was gonna mention the Stone Age and I’d give it about a week.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Honestly if the AWS system admins all died at once I think that'll probably be enough to take us down at this point.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am in Management. Everything will carry on fine.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lots of dead people. Paramedics help many.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Network Engineer.

The internet becomes more stable because we stop fiddling with the internet routing protocols.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I knew it! /s

I'm only joking in the kindest way. Please don't turn off my precious Internet.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a student... the world wouldn't end but it also wouldn't have a future.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My job title is "Team Member" my industry is "Warehousing" the world literally ends before the day is out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Since you're now unemployed, wanna join my gang and try to take over the local ware house district full of rice so we can try and survive until humanity has fallen and we can survive on foraging?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I'm a digital marketer. The world would instantly start improving probably. you're welcome.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I'm an IT director. Things begin running more smoothly.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sewage in the street by days end. Resurging preventable diseases long thought vanished by the developed world shortly thereafter.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love you and greatly appreciate the potentially smelly and possibly unsafe work you do.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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. 😶

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just reminds us of how much of a luxury you are and how much we appreciate having you around :)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Thousands of deaths within seconds. Airline pilot

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There are applications where we actually have to adhere to standards.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

There would be a lot fewer old people by the end of the month... (ICU Nurse)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I'm a software dev.

Looking at this thread, Lemmy's userbase would halve.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You'll all be fighting in the streets for food by the end of next week. Logistics literally moves the world. 🚚

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You mean the rice I eat that is grown mostly on other side of the world didn't appear at my door step magically???

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup. I'm a warehouse manager. The logistics/ transportation/ warehousing industry is already stretched disturbingly thin. If we take away the people who run the places, the world will grind to a halt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I pressed a few buttons on my computer and as a result am expecting a specific product to arrive at my door step later today.

The level organization and infrastructure required to make it so that I can have 1 of like a million products hand delivered to my door within hours of me deciding I want it is staggering to be honest.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Payroll admin so... if you hadn't specified that's it was just within my industry I think the whole world would come to a standstill by Friday. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Let the riots begin!!!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If all machine operators vanished anything mass produced would stop getting made.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If we thought catalytic converters were being stolen now, now no new ones are being made!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Working in science, so I guess nothing bad would happen. However, humanity will stop progressing for a while, until people are replaced.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sorry, I don't know what SAP or ABAP mean.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Systems administrator. I am the "OS mechanic" for the computer world. Within weeks, cascading failure on a scale that would last a decade or more

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I feel called out... like probably nothing bad will happen. Is this what a mid-life crisis feels like? Or is it a stroke?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

10 minutes?

I am IT technician and I can’t have a meeting without a user feels their whole world is crashing if I don’t click the scary button for them.

So I don’t want to imagine if suddenly we all disappeared how they would get on. Probably back to paper and pencils.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ah cripes, I'm literally a "software developer." Modern civilization is so, so fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Childcare educator, a large amount of people suddenly wouldn't be able to work because they have no one to watch their children.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm a web developer, so... Not me, but there are people who manage important web portals, for healthcare and security stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Social Worker, so maybe some parts of society would come crashing down at first but maybe turn out for the better in the long run. More specifically, working in a hospital currently, helping set up support structures for after the patient is discharged. Maybe we'd end up with people staying in hospitals for longer or visiting more frequently, could be a big hit to our Healthcare system, could force some much needed changes.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Alot of people with mental health issues would be wandering the streets. Some would simply die at home due to not being able to look after and feed themselves. A fair few would be going around sexually assaulting young girls/boys (not understanding they're adults & it's wrong) and alot would be so pissed off and confused they be trying to kick the shit out of anyone they'd see. The world wouldn't end but it'd be a pain in the arse to navigate.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cashier & Customer Service. Who are Karens gonna yell at without us?! Society would collapse immediatly.

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