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.
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’m a web developer, so… Not me, but there are people who manage important web portals, for healthcare and security stuff.
Lots of dead people. Paramedics help many.
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.
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.
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
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.
