Urban planning. Being able to walk to all your errands gets taken for granted until you move to a suburban hellhole.
Anything in IT.
A clean bathroom. Or not…
Sound effects or music on TV and movies. Cleaners. Machine maintenance.
That powdery black finish on computer PSU’s.
Product management.
IT.
came here to say this and it irks me that doing nothing has the same effect as doing something exceptionally well.
Network Administration.
If the network and servers all work: What are we paying you for?
If the network or one of the servers are down: What are we paying you for?
infrastructure in general - even beyond IT. No one sits at home thinking: The sewer system is great! How reliably my shit vanishes from my toilet! Until it doesn’t.
I actually do. For some reason my children are fascinated where it all goes, so we’ve seems lots of videos on plumbing, in house and on the street. They’re absolutely bowled over by how it all works and it’s made me appreciate it so much more.
It’s also an enormous hygiene booster; running water, waste management etc. If you have a working water system in your neighbourhood you’re blessed. It’s one of those things Stone Age people would barely believe was real.
Which reminds me of a comment I read on Lemmy not too long ago - someone was wishing for a robot to handle the laundry. And I was like: “What do you think a washing machine is?!”
Anyhing IT
Can confirm. The IT guys never deserve their money.
If theyre doing it right, why do we need them? Everything works.
If they do it even slightly wrong, why are we paying them? They clearly can’t do anything right.
Seasoning
Salt yes, but I’m convinced bay leaves do nothing
Bay leaves let that one person at dinner know, that you don’t like them
Noooo, getting the bay leaf is lucky!
Proofreading.
Yuo mean poofrearimg,
Plumbing
Taking a shower.
My work apparently. Other people got promoted for solving problems quickly. I didn’t have problems. At least, I did, but I solved them without help or advertising them enough probably.
You gotta justify your job by acting like it’s difficult
You tell them it’ll take a miracle to pull off so they see you as a miracle worker when you do it
Start looking pissed off all the time, swear a lot when you’re on the phone, call in a bomb threat when your boss and family are in your office waiting for you while you secretly sleep under your desk. The standard stuff.
Walking.
