Finally, a Job for the Rest of Us

Description

This is a meme featuring a photograph of a large blue hiring sign, partially obscured by a grey lamppost. At the top of the image, a black banner with white text reads, 'Finally, a job I'm qualified for'. The sign below has two lines of text in white. The first line clearly says, 'We're hiring'. The second line is where the joke lies: the lamppost is perfectly positioned to block the letter 'f' in the word 'Shift', making the sign appear to be hiring for 'Shit Managers'. The humor is derived from this unfortunate but comical placement. For the tech audience, this is highly relatable, cynically touching upon experiences with incompetent management, the Peter Principle (where engineers are promoted beyond their competency), or a self-deprecating jab at one's own perceived managerial failings

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick I see they're finally formalizing the role for the manager who just approves every pull request without reading the code

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

I see they're finally formalizing the role for the manager who just approves every pull request without reading the code
Anonymous

Somewhere in HR’s CSS: `.lampost { position: absolute; z-index: 999; text-transform: morale; }` - and suddenly I’m the designated sh*t manager of the sprint backlog
Anonymous

After 20 years of debugging production incidents, refactoring legacy codebases, and sitting through sprint retrospectives where nothing ever changes, I've finally found a management position that accurately describes what I've been doing all along - managing other people's shift
Anonymous

After 15 years of managing shift registers, bitwise operations, and left-shift optimizations in production systems, I've finally found a role where my expertise in Shift management is genuinely appreciated - though I suspect the compensation package won't include stock options or the ability to blame deployment failures on Kubernetes
Anonymous

After two decades of shift-left initiatives and shift-right postmortems, I’m already the Shift Manager every time the f drops out at 03:00
Anonymous

SREs scanning LinkedIn: 'Shift Manager? Add 'PagerDuty escalations under SLO pressure' to experience - hired.'
Anonymous

Sev-2 signage bug: an occlusion layer turns “Shift Manager” into “Shit Manager” - the org‑chart version of a CSS z-index gone wrong
@deinoxia 2y

At least they're being honest
1. @deerspangle 2y
  
  Right? Most places don't tell you that until you join
@kidfool 2y

готов стать менеджером вашего дерьма
1. @sylfn 2y
  
  Please use English in this chat
  
  @kidfool 2y
  
  I apologise.
@glatavento 2y

I don't want manage shit😰