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

I am in Management. Everything will carry on fine.

Lots of dead people. Paramedics help many.

Network Engineer.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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. 😶

Thousands of deaths within seconds. Airline pilot

Software Engineer. Things might improve, actually.

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

I'm a software dev.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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