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I'm a sysadmin. So like two days tops before absolutely everything stops working, and we resort to loin cloths and spears.

Network Engineer.

The internet becomes more stable because we stop fiddling with the internet routing protocols.

Lots of dead people. Paramedics help many.

I am in Management. Everything will carry on fine.

I'm a student... the world wouldn't end but it also wouldn't have a future.

I'm a digital marketer. The world would instantly start improving probably. you're welcome.

My job title is "Team Member" my industry is "Warehousing" the world literally ends before the day is out.

I'm an IT director. Things begin running more smoothly.

Oh no, the Business Systems Analysts are gone. Whatever shall we do. Society won't survive like this. Who's gonna analyze business requirements for systems. A tragedy, to be sure. 😶

Farm worker. Food shortage, widespread food shortage. People would have to change their diets within a few weeks, and learn to hunt to avoid starvation in a few months. Unstaffed farms would be cleaned out for immediate food over time, and the price of anything edible not raised on a farm of some kind would shoot to the moon. Any automated farming that a landowner could run would be the way to go, for lack of workers.

Sewage in the street by days end. Resurging preventable diseases long thought vanished by the developed world shortly thereafter.

There would be a lot fewer old people by the end of the month... (ICU Nurse)

Thousands of deaths within seconds. Airline pilot

I'm a software dev.

Looking at this thread, Lemmy's userbase would halve.

Software Engineer. Things might improve, actually.

Holy shit my job is worthless

Software developer. Some software would break down immediately, some would break down over time.

We don't know when everything will have broken down. That's where the fun lies 😈

I'm an adjunct professor. If every adjunct professor disappeared today, universities would instantly be better for students and professors. Administrators would hate it, though.

Trucks dont get dispatched so give it a few days and grocery stores will run out, every store will out.

If all machine operators vanished anything mass produced would stop getting made.

You'll all be fighting in the streets for food by the end of next week. Logistics literally moves the world. 🚚

Payroll admin so... if you hadn't specified that's it was just within my industry I think the whole world would come to a standstill by Friday. Lol.

Systems administrator. I am the "OS mechanic" for the computer world. Within weeks, cascading failure on a scale that would last a decade or more

Working in science, so I guess nothing bad would happen. However, humanity will stop progressing for a while, until people are replaced.

I feel called out... like probably nothing bad will happen. Is this what a mid-life crisis feels like? Or is it a stroke?

Childcare educator, a large amount of people suddenly wouldn't be able to work because they have no one to watch their children.

Quality engineer. Eventually someone would get around to the work I do. But there would be a lot of avoidable slowdowns and stoppages as parts and processes breakdown without the function that intentionally searches out and fixes problems.

Eventually problems would get painful enough, a person would get assigned to fix them.

And then another problem and eventually another person assigned to fix.

And then hey, wouldn't it more efficient if we assign a person to go after all these problems? And what if they could even be proactive enough to fix problems before they got out the door? And what if we called that person's function Quality?

Ah cripes, I'm literally a "software developer." Modern civilization is so, so fucked.

10 minutes?

I am IT technician and I can’t have a meeting without a user feels their whole world is crashing if I don’t click the scary button for them.

So I don’t want to imagine if suddenly we all disappeared how they would get on. Probably back to paper and pencils.

Pretty sure the internet would collapse in a matter of hours.

(Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineer)

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.

It wouldn't be more than a few days. You all don't realize what I do for you. I'm out there every night fighting the night man. Bringing in the day man. I am the fighter of the night man, ahhhhhhaaaayhaahhaaa, champion of the sun, master of karate and friendship for everyone.

I'm a help desk technician... so immediately.

Paramedic. A lot of people would die at home or on the streets. Many hospitals would be overwhelmed with patients that can't leave. Nursing homes would have to actualy take care of and treat people for once. Drunk collage kids will be allowed to go home peacefully. Police will not be able to pass off uncooperative people to hospitals for a psych evaluation as easy.

For real though, it would not be fun for the world.

Would be nice if we where treated and paid like we matter.

If it's just paramedics and not EMTs then it won't be as bad. People will still die though.

Corporate IT manager

I'm not sure anyone would notice

I'm a web developer, so... Not me, but there are people who manage important web portals, for healthcare and security stuff.