Computer Science on Yik Yak | Today at my government agency job I was heralded as a genius. What I did? Wrote a 30 line powershell script to delete empty subfolders in a giant directory. Apparently my supervisor has been doing it by hand for a year. Why is the bar so low….

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Today at my government agency job I was heralded as a genius. What I did? Wrote a 30 line powershell script to delete empty subfolders in a giant directory. Apparently my supervisor has been doing it by hand for a year. Why is the bar so low….

Anonymous 1w

What government agency is this so I can apply and be a standout

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Anonymous 1w

This is whats making the government lose money. They need more SWE lol

Anonymous 1w

*I* could do that. 😭

Anonymous 1w

Automating things is a critical performance mgmt criterion. On the other hand, you could be automating others, or yourself, out of a job

Anonymous

#1 1w

They gotta hire me (pls don’t drug test me govt, I have a med card)

Anonymous

#5 1w

See with the state gov system I’m at, it’s based on the merit system. So once you are past probation, they can’t fire you if your job disappears. They’ll find something for you to do. That’s how we got a permanent employee in our office whose full time job is scanning old paper documents into digital storage

Anonymous

#1 1w

The issue is, we have a computer services department, and apparently my supervisor had asked them for this a year ago and they just never got back with him. This is how I’ve now ended up as the person my entire office goes to for any task thought of as “tech” related. So we have computer people, they just don’t do anything

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Anonymous

#4 1w

all of them lol

Anonymous

OP 1w

As someone who interned at a college and got to see how the sausage was made it was kinda eye opening. 9 IT people for all of campus (3-4 of those were helpdesk), my building houses the presidents office, so everybody was always fighting to be in there. Swear somebody new moved in every week. I basically installed printers for all of them, because IT quoted them a month turn around. Fascinating shit.