40 Funny Memes To Perfectly Sum Up IT Humor, As Shared By This Facebook Group
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“Whoever said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results has obviously never had to reboot a computer.”
William Petersen may have been quoted saying that, but according to anyone who has ever worked in IT, he’s right. Restarting a computer really does solve most issues, but we are not always brilliant enough to come up with that solution on our own. Sometimes we need to reach out to the experts: the people working in IT.
IT jobs can be incredibly stressful, so anyone working in the information technology field deserves to have a place where they can blow off some steam, laugh at some memes and enjoy a few minutes before needing to restart their computer again (or having to tell someone else to restart theirs). That’s where the IT Humor and Memes Facebook group comes in.
Full of hilarious posts (for anyone who can actually understand them) that all of you IT pandas out there might find painfully relatable, we’ve gathered our favorite pics from the group down below, as well as an interview with the group's creator, Trevor Paquette. Be sure to upvote all of the posts you find most amusing, and then if you work in IT, let us know in the comments: are you doing okay?
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We reached out to the creator of IT Humor and Memes, Trevor Paquette, to hear a bit more about how the group got started in the first place. "I created the group when I realized there was a lack of general IT meme groups," Trevor told Bored Panda. "The keyword there is 'general'. There were developer/programmer groups, the odd networking group, a few hacker groups, but no general IT ones I could find. The posts I submitted to an IT support group, tended to get lost in all of the great support questions being asked. So I thought, why not start a general IT humor group?"
"In May of 2019, it was created has been growing ever since," Trevor shared. "I never expected to hit 10,000 members, let alone the 1/2 million we are about to hit. The group has become a place to share things that many find funny using shared experience. (In the words of Sybok, 'Share your pain and gain strength from the sharing'). The group banner of the 'ESC' key leaving the keyboard is on purpose. Many have commented it gives them a needed break, an escape, from the constant stress and pressure they feel at work."
We also asked Trevor if it's necessary to have some sort of IT background to understand the jokes. "For some of the posts, it definitely helps to have a background in some aspect of IT, whether it be programming, networking, cybersecurity, administration, or tech support. The play on words and concepts can be somewhat confusing if you don't understand them," he explained. "That being said, a majority of posts are general enough that anyone should be able to get the humor. What I like to see are posts where 'It's funny because it's true' could be a caption. When humor mirrors real life with experiences the reader has had, it's a connection and makes it all the funnier for them."
We also wanted to know what the best parts about working in IT are for Trevor. "For me, the best thing ... is it's always changing. There's something more or something new to learn. Never a dull moment as the underlying technologies advance and change. There's always a way to look at a problem differently, and for the most part, if you need help, someone else has usually encountered the issue you are having and might be able to help."
Trevor went on to share some words of wisdom, "4 words: Let people enjoy things. This is the #1 reason posts get closed down. There are generally 'two camps' in tech; 'Us' and 'Them'," he noted. "For example, Android and iOS, Linux and Windows, Apple and Microsoft. Techs have their favorite OS, device, tool, app, or method of doing something; we all do. The Dunning-Kruger effect is alive and well within IT as quite a few techs have the 'my way or the highway' mindset. This results in a religious OS war between rivalries with some discussions of 'Us and Them' becomes 'Us vs Them', devolving to 'Me vs You' very quickly with comments becoming insults."
"Both the 'Us' camp and the 'Them' camp may want to remember they are both part of a larger 'We' camp; the 'IT' camp," Trevor explained. "IT is just a means towards an end-goal that we are all trying to achieve. It's fantastic learning opportunity to see how someone might use a different tool to solve the same problem. Aka: Let people enjoy things."
IT Humor and Meme’s ‘About’ page states that it’s for, “Humor and memes related to IT, or associated technology. Just a small corner in the big Facebook world to let loose a little steam and escape.” And clearly, members love it, as they are very active. In the last week, the group has gained nearly 6,000 new members, and as I’m writing this, the page has received over 60 posts today.
But it makes perfect sense for IT people to have a place of solace on Facebook after working a grueling day in the office. Working in IT can come along with immense stress, which we all know can take a toll on the body. According to a study published in the National Library of Medicine, “IT and IT related professionals are under constant pressure to deliver services efficiently and have to be cost effective.” Due to this, they are prone to developing a variety of health problems due to continuous physical and mental stress, including acid peptic disease, alcoholism, asthma, diabetes, fatigue, tension headaches, insomnia, IBS, and more.
I took typing in high school. On a mechanical typewriter. I made calls on a rotary phone. I used collect calls from pay phones to get my mom to pick me up at school. "Will you accept a collect call from 'I'm done with track please pick me up'?"
I see your "rotary phone" and raise you a "party line."
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Dooo meeep meep meep meep meep. Dooo meeep meep meep meep meep. Brrrrrrr. This is only a test of the emergency broadcasting system.
Pencil and cassette are match made in heaven. I had a drawer of you know, the Save logo from Microsoft Word. There was a time that I was the coolest and most advanced person because I owned 32Megabytes memory card.
if you wanted to install a game you needed multiple save logos :D
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When you put your console on to play you didn't have to wait 20 minutes for it to do an update before you could play a game.
When doing an update actually involved swapping chips inside the computer!
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To make the game work, you had to blow in the cartridge like you were playing scales on a harmonica.
And when the k**b broke… you kept a pair of pliers on top of the TV.
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At a certain time at night, the Star Spangled Banner would play and TV channels would be off air. You would just see static/snow on the channels. (USA)
Video games didn’t exist. Cell phones didn’t exist. Video recorders didn’t exist. Internet didn’t exist. Etc.
I took photos but couldn't look at them until I took them to the local pharmacy and waited anything from 2 days to 2 weeks for them to be returned. Rubbish ones would have a sticker on disclaiming that they were rubbish.
Also there are numerous photos I still haven't seen several years later.
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911 (USA) didn't exist yet. We had to call the actual phone number of either the fire station, police station or hospital (ambulance). The numbers were posted on the wall next to the rotary phone.
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Clotheslines...am radio...a wringer washer...root cellars...manual cars...walking everywhere...gas lines...but also gas being like 50 cents...movies for a dollar...no McDonald's...no malls...I could go on and on plus what others already listed
7of those 11 is still the norm around here (middle of the UK)
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You picked up the phone and had to make sure your neighbor wasn't using it before you started dialing. Party lines were fun.
Candy cigarettes, Miss Francis, wax coke bottles, hula hoops, 8-track tapes, CB radios, Paul McCartney's group before Wings, ...
The cable box was a brick that you had to press buttons on and flip a switch to go up in channels; if you pushed down the correct two channels at night you could get scrambled porn if you were lucky.
I destroyed a lot of vinyls as a kid and my father did not care, because they were cheap.
In school the teacher would roll out an overhead projector for us to do our daily assignments together!
My boss actually asked me the California Raisins were when I did the dance and sang with a customer. It was then that I realized I didn't get paid enough to work for someone so young who made more a year than I was still paying off in student loans....
Bullies were a real threat. During the summer when school was out, all of us hung out at the park after lunch and weren't allowed to go home until dads got home from work. If you needed a drink of water, you just drank from garden hose. It was common for a bully to show up and severely injure one of us. If one showed up, we'd all just scatter until the bully caught someone and we'd watch them get beaten up. When you went home that night, you were told to either learn how to fight better or run faster. Note - I am not trying to downplay bullying now. Just pointing out that when I grew up, no one called the cops or the parent's of a bully who broke your arm. You were told to learn to run faster.
On the plus side if you did flatten the bully, you didn't get into trouble
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Not all video home systems had a rewind feature. Sometimes you had to buy a separate machine.
When I arrived at college for the first time, there was a large (and I do mean LARGE) basket full of cigarette samples....little boxes with 4 cigarettes in each. From all the cigarette companies....a vast sampling of their wares. The school was in the south!
Wait what? K n o b, you know like doorknob why the absolute butt nut is the word K n o b censored?!?!?!?:📺 LIKE THE THINGS THIS HAS!!!!! Can someone explain?
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You called into the late night radio shows to request your favorite songs cause you knew that's when you mostly likely could get thru ....lol
Your fav VHS tape getting destoryed was the end of the world when it was one that was a recording of live tv specials
Caller ID and voicemail were on 2 separate devices, not connected to a phone.
Party lines on the phone with a rotary dial. And I don't feel I'm THAT old. 😉
"Pro gamer" was another name for a person with no life and no friends.
In my country we only had 1 tv channel and there was no tv on Thursdays and the entire month of July because that was the month for family time and playing outside. Every day before the news there was a pronunciation lesson for native borns, foreigners didn't really learn about my country until I was in my late teens and people didn't really want to move here because of its name lol I didn't hours on end listening to the radio with a cassette ready and finger on the REC button waiting for my favorite songs and hoping the dj wouldn't interrupt the song I wanted to record to say something useless lol
Our first computer only had 64k ram and two 5.25" floppy drives. I would stand up on the front seat of the truck so I could see out the windshield. Carburators, ignition points, manual chokes.
Four TV channels: ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS. That's all, folks...and "It's ten o'clock. Do you know where your children are?"
Having to use a cable slider box to change the TV channel in the early 1980's
I can look at a cassette tape and a pencil and know why they're connected and what i need to do.
Phone numbers started with letters. Sitting comfortably in the back of the station wagon with my brother and all of our 1st cousins. Easily-hackable, push-button cable boxes. My first movie was Star Wars. I was way too young to understand it, but I loved it (and Mark Hamill).
You had to go to an actual library if you needed a certain book. Oh and to locate said book, you would need to know Dewey decimal searching through huge wooden cabinets filled with dozens of drawers that had hundreds of 4× 6 cards on which you were given directions to find the book you wanted. You would then go on a journey to find the book. Or you could ask a librarian to have pity on you.
You had to get up off the couch to change the channel...that is IF the other 2 channels were "coming in"!!!
Black & white t.v. & 2 channels. My sister & I sat on a small rug to watch Bozo the clown & the 'Moon Landing' !
We only had 4 tv channels and you had to fiddle around with the antenna to get a clear signal on at least 2 of them. Oh and no tv remote. We had to get up and change the dial manually *gasp* ALSO…no cordless phones, and many of them were still rotary phones. The push button phone (still wired) elicited a woooooooh. And forget about answering machines!
I was the remote for my dad. Also the beer-fetcher.
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Hand held calculators were a very new thing and people only had a landline phone in their homes... Usually in the hallway near their front door...!!
Getting up to "stop" the VCR from recording the commercial during a show or movie!
Going to sleep at night listening to records, hoping you would not hear the dreaded repeating, repeating, repeating, repeating , indicating one of your records had a scratch.
My age is the answer, to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. And i don’t even feel old yet. 😁
Plug it into the Improbability Drive, but not while you're trying to get a cup of tea.
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They could also work on 2 if you flipped the switch on the RF adapter. Also the phrase "RF adapter".
People would sometimes have to walk for miles to call each other an "A$$hole"
When the tv would stop working right you would take the tubes out to test at the local hardware store to see which one needed to be replaced.
shared telephone lines. You literally could eavesdrop your neighbors conversations. For those who don't know, one ring is your line, two is your neighbor's.
You have to use the old tv to watch care bears on vhs
They used to make boxes you could buy to descramble all of the ppv stuff
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According to one survey, 78% of IT workers considered their jobs to be stressful. This could be for a variety of reasons, but one that seems to be a common theme is just having too much work in the day. “Everybody gets a work-life balance except for the poor IT guy," Sergio Galindo, general manager at GFI Software, told Computer World. And even though IT workers are often overworked, they might not even be receiving proper compensation. When over 200 IT professionals were surveyed, almost half of them admitted that they typically work up to eight unpaid hours a week.
Being overworked spills over into all aspects of these professionals' lives though. Almost half of the IT workers surveyed said they had missed out on social functions “due to overrunning issues and tight deadlines”, and about 40% said they were missing time with their children and losing sleep. Nearly one third also reported suffering from a stress-related illness.
And like most IT professionals would, has done a cut and paste job rather than match the font
Clearly, working in IT is not for the faint of heart. But why do so many people get into the field in the first place? Is it simply out of necessity? To learn more about what it’s really like to work in IT, we consulted this piece, featuring insight from Austin Turecek, Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at Flashpoint. Austin breaks down a few misconceptions often associated with IT and explains what the job actually entails in reality. First, he explains that you don’t have to be a computer genius to work in IT. “It helps if you have a good knack for computers and you understand them,” Austin says. “But there's such a broad and open door to IT.”
Austin explains that even people working in IT have to use Google to help them figure out what their previous knowledge does not account for. Nobody can possibly know everything, so it is a valuable skill to be able to research and figure out what to do from there. You are never going to be expected to know everything from the get-go; critical thinking skills or being able to “think like a computer” can get you a long way. “One of the biggest things is the ability to pay attention to process, to problem-solve, and to identify issues quickly enough that they don't become larger issues,” Austin says.
Well, everyone could do it, if they want. And Tech Support is not paid for googeling it, but knowing WHAT to search for ;-)
Another misconception about working in IT that Austin calls out is the idea that it’s mainly just fixing broken hardware. While that may be part of your day or fall under your job description as an IT professional, Austin says that each day is different. He works in deep and dark web intelligence and analysis, which apparently entails coding for 10 hours straight some days and reading through reports and documents for hours other days. He also notes that there is a lot of writing required to work in IT. “For example, you might need to summarize complicated material for people in C-level or upper management who may only skim a document; and then you also may have to provide in-depth technical explanations for colleagues to follow.”
In the late 90s I did a short course in computing (hoping a certificate would get me a job if I could prove I knew what I already knew). Anyway, the instructor said in the 80s when the 5 1/4 discs were used, people used to fold them up and put them in their pockets after class. Weirdly, they didn't work right next class...
One stereotype that IT professionals often get is that they are introverted, quiet and enjoy sitting at their desks and avoiding human interaction all day. However, like any field, there are a wide variety of people who work in IT. Austin notes that soft skills and interpersonal skills can actually go a long way in IT as well. For example, people who interact with their customers and provide troubleshooting guidance are often very personable and friendly. Plus, it helps to have a lot of patience and sympathy for people who call in experiencing tech issues, because they are often feeling extremely frustrated and upset. Kofi Friar, Senior IT Manager at Codecadamy, even refers to IT as “technical therapy” because “you might find yourself consoling someone who can’t access an essential file or talking to someone who’s angry that their kid spilled a drink on their laptop”.
Silly machines, humans don't need your help. We're quite good at destroying ourselves.
Instead of Velcro or the dreaded zip ties, please welcome the Lego me cable holder. These are all I will use now.
So if you’re considering a future in IT, but you’re still on the fence, let me point out some of the pros of the field. For one thing, the jobs are certainly in demand. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in computer and information technology occupations is projected to grow 11% from 2019 to 2029, meaning there should be about 531,200 new IT jobs. Nowadays, job security is increasingly difficult to find, so if you want to know that you’ll always be in demand, information technology might just be the path for you.
There is also very strong earning potential in the IT sector. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the 2020 median annual income across all computer and information information technology jobs was $91,250. That’s over $20,000 more than the national average income in the US for 2020, but depending on the specific job, IT professionals can make much more. For example, software developers made an average salary of over $110,000 in 2020, and computer network architects earned an average of over $116,000. Not too shabby.
Whether you currently work in the IT field, you've previously done your time, or you have no desire to ever step foot into the stress chamber that is IT, we hope you're enjoying this list of funny posts and memes. Keep upvoting the posts you find most amusing, and then let us know what your personal experiences have been like if you've ever worked in the IT sector. And if you're interested in even more of this content, you can join the IT Humor and Memes Facebook group right here.
Because someone on the other side of the wall needed a network jack and they couldn't or wouldn't install a new one so they just punched a hole in the wall and fed the cable through
I’m not ashamed of my daily Pinterest habit. Sometimes multiple times a day!
Note: this post originally had 63 images. It’s been shortened to the top 40 images based on user votes.
I have a shirt that says dead pigeon pictures and I have no clue why or where I got it.
I have a shirt that says dead pigeon pictures and I have no clue why or where I got it.
