To be fair my bag is rad. Also it felt kinda futuristic hot spotting my work laptop to my phone to connect to some servers halfway across the country while in my car in a parking lot, but that wears off pretty quickly after a couple times.
Once everyone figures out your can fix things pretty much regardless of where you are, they start to form the expectation that you’re going to do that every single time.
I remember hooking my HTC Dream up to my MacBook in like 2009 so I could have my friend as a floating head via Skype, so she could join me for a video game preorder party. It was the coolest thing ever. I wish I remembered what game!
i thought it was just making fun of people who put their bags on public transit and has nothing to do with IT outside of a loose association with introverts
I’ve used “mobile workstations” that I certainly wouldn’t want to keep on my lap for any amount of time. I’d definitely refer to it as a laptop if not in an IT type discussion though.
Everyone talking about the pain of being on call, I thought the comic was about how much IT guys love their backpacks…
I don’t work in IT.
I’m a software engineer, I bring my backpack everywhere. I thought it was about lovin’ the backpack.
The main difference, mine is green. It doesn’t always have my laptop in it though, I use it for groceries etc too.
Same here. Mine is black, but it’s pretty old and I’m thinking of replacing it.
To be fair my bag is rad. Also it felt kinda futuristic hot spotting my work laptop to my phone to connect to some servers halfway across the country while in my car in a parking lot, but that wears off pretty quickly after a couple times.
Once everyone figures out your can fix things pretty much regardless of where you are, they start to form the expectation that you’re going to do that every single time.
Well they dont know how long it takes to fix stuff, so I shall do it whenever I feel like it eventually.
“Yeah sorry someone upstream broke the interconnect compiler to our computation fabric, I send a patch and have to wait for the developer to merge it”
I remember hooking my HTC Dream up to my MacBook in like 2009 so I could have my friend as a floating head via Skype, so she could join me for a video game preorder party. It was the coolest thing ever. I wish I remembered what game!
i thought it was just making fun of people who put their bags on public transit and has nothing to do with IT outside of a loose association with introverts
To me, the last panel is when backpack traveling and sleeping in a hostel in Europe.
The title says “Life of an IT Guy”, so that’s the association OP wants us to make
How the hell is this related to a backpack? I have worked in IT and have had “on call” duty and this comic makes no fucking sense to me…
One can travel the world but only got a backpack… Quite offensive then ;)
Mobile workstation while being on call
Just say laptop like a normal person…
No
I’ve used “mobile workstations” that I certainly wouldn’t want to keep on my lap for any amount of time. I’d definitely refer to it as a laptop if not in an IT type discussion though.
I’m assuming it’s their work bag…?