illiquidsnake on Nostr: Third month as data engineer by a pharma company. Meeting with IT network admins to ...
Third month as data engineer by a pharma company. Meeting with IT network admins to solve connectivity issues between departments/machines.
Me: “ok gentleman, I have prepared some slides to show you our issues with the current corporate internal network. Server x is in position y and is behind a firewall. We need to access that server to perform blablabla… I have made a basic HTTP server in python to blablabla. We can try this and this but then we need to designate a TCP port that is open in the firewall… blablabla”.
IT representative listens with vague smile and waits that I finish to add: “good that you joined our group! Let me show you something… [opens paint] this is a computer… an SQL server is an application that runs on a machine. An IP is an “address” we give to computers to find them back and… by the way… we don’t use custom solutions here because nobody else knows how to use python, what if you then leave?!”
…I am so fucked 😂😂😂
Me: “ok gentleman, I have prepared some slides to show you our issues with the current corporate internal network. Server x is in position y and is behind a firewall. We need to access that server to perform blablabla… I have made a basic HTTP server in python to blablabla. We can try this and this but then we need to designate a TCP port that is open in the firewall… blablabla”.
IT representative listens with vague smile and waits that I finish to add: “good that you joined our group! Let me show you something… [opens paint] this is a computer… an SQL server is an application that runs on a machine. An IP is an “address” we give to computers to find them back and… by the way… we don’t use custom solutions here because nobody else knows how to use python, what if you then leave?!”
…I am so fucked 😂😂😂