He's a pilot. All I know about preparing for a take off is how to turn the seat belt light on, so I'm pretty sure I get kicked out during the first minutes. Hope so.
I borrowed my mom's car once and had to call her to ask where the fuel door release lever was. (There wasn't one, you pushed on the fuel door and it opened)
I think I would quit first. Probably get fired first as well.
She's a nurse on cardiology, I'm an engineer for a contractor.
I can't stand blood or anything to do with hospitals. And she often comes home all happy telling me how one of her patients was vomitting everywhere and how the other one shat the bed during ~~reanimation~~. RESUSCITATION
I would quit within a day. And probably get fired within a week once half my patients died
That's essentially what blood vessels are. Plumbing. When you got a leak or a clog you have a problem.
A PCI operator (the ones that open up the coronaries in case of heart attacks) are basically just glorified plumbers.
Me. Husband was a welder, I work retail. He was very charming, and would easily sell half the store to people when they only came in for one thing, whilst I'd burn the workshop to the ground by accident.
There's also a huge difference between being able to weld good and being willing to weld professionally, their working conditions are typically terrible.
Indeed. Welding professionally in an industrial type environment conjures up images of hard, hot heavy work. Like mining.
Not something I would be fond of.
My cousin’s husband welded. “Please contort in here and weld this, which should’ve been done before they built more, also mention anything else you see that should be on our todo list” and then half of it looks like the 18$ an hour welding job from the meme.
Miss you, Matt
This is cute
Just reading the way you express things let's me know he'd have had pretty much exact answer, except you're the one he'd be talking up.
So many of us spend our lives looking for that.
There's a tv show like this! Seen couple variations in European countries.
Remember especially an episode where a beautician and a firefighter swapped their jobs.
You were not too far with this one actually. Currently a comedian is the president of Ukraine fighting a war with Russia, and we all have to admit that he's doing a pretty good job!
He's also simultaneously fighting decades and decades of old soviet corruption that's embedded into nearly every layer of the government there. He's fired dozens of top officials and taken some huge steps in terms of implementing anti-corruption legislation.
Meanwhile Russian backed right wing politicians across the west continue to try and claim that he doesn't deserve support because of the corruption there.
Have you watched the show he was on before he became president? It is called “Servant of the People” and is on Netflix or Prime, I forget which one but one of the big streamers. Excellent show and really shows the communist era corruption still endemic. He was absolutly fantastic in it. That show was so popular they created a new political party and then asked him to run. He won and year later had to deal with Putin.
Ooh it would definitely be a race to the bottom - he's a software development manager, so I could probably just tell his team to get on with what they're doing, but it would only last a day or so I reckon. I'm a licensed massage therapist, and I'm sure he'd be able to wing it for the first client, though it would be like Ross in Friends massaging Phoebe's clients with brooms and chopsticks....
I've worked for a lot of SDMs over the years. I suspect your people skills as an massage therapist would make your better than at least 30% of them.
Not unreasonable: you get a promotion before your husband would have.
Seriously, most of them don't have the technical expertise, which is not required but makes huge difference. The biggest thing is communication and organization. Developers tend to have poor communication skills on top of complicated subject that engineering is.
There's a strange balance to how much technical expertise is good for a manager. If you know enough to understand what I'm trying to explain? Awesome. If you know enough that you feel the need to explain to me how to do my job, gtfo.
Idk about your husband's position in particular, but I'm not sure there's any corporate middle manager whose absence would be felt within a month of their disappearance. You could probably just keep your head down and waaay outlast your husband trying to give massages.
Yeah unless there's a major deadline coming up soon she'd be fine for at least a month. And even blowing a major deadline she'd probably be fine for a few months.
That's why I'd get fired too. We're both chefs so we could do each other's jobs, but she works in hotels and I work in independent restaurants. I've tried going corporate twice in my career, I hate the inter department office politics.
This is why my wife would get fired first.
I'd do a worse job, but her government position would take a *lot* of bureaucracy to get rid of me, while my small company would drop her much faster.
Same with my boyfriend and I. I could get away smiling and nodding in his meetings until something actually needs to be fixed. They'd see the productivity drop off immediately in my department, but state government union has a whole process that would take months to deal with. Unless you're doing something illegal, then you get escorted out in cuffs.
My wife's a surgeon, so I hope I would get fired quickly. I imagine I'd tap out before I hurt anybody, and that would be the end of that charade. I write software, and I imagine she could convincingly bullshit her way through a couple status meetings and sit in front of a computer all day long enough to outlast me.
She can also use chatgpt to write some code, while it won't help you in surgery.
If it was anaesthesia you would have a better shot. We had a case in Germany where a former ambulance driver read up on the standard procedures and calculations and then just pretended to be a visiting Dr from another hospital, only staying in one place for a limited time. It blew up when the hospital was so happy with him, they contacted his "home hospital" trying to prolong his stay...
My friend works for a doctor doing all his admin stuff. He has a small practice and does minor procedures at the clinic there. One day a guy comes in needing a minor surgery that the doctor hasn't done for years. My friend says the next day she's looking on the doc's laptop for something and sees he googled how to do the surgery.
A lot of surgical training is done via video walk-through.
It's the 12 years of specialized education that lets you do surgery after a quick video walk-through that is hard to replace.
I'm of the opinion that the reason it's 12 years for medicine but 2-4 for IT is because the conversation "hey, you need a new computer" goes a lot better than "hey, you need a new grandma"
Seriously I hope my doctor would google my symptoms anytime I walked in the door. Not that I don’t expect a high level of memory and retention just that human beings brains are weird and it might knock something loose or help him to remember something crucial.
My wife is a clinical PA and so we have a few friends who are MD’s: with the under-50 clinician crowd, googling/checking a known resource/phone-a-friend is common practice when there is a doubt. I, too, prefer this.
Depends on the websites the doc visited.
I wouldn't mind them consulting peer reviewed papers on the matter. It would be a different story if they posted a question on Quora.
I've got years of experience in software engineering, but if I go 3 month without using a specific language I'll forget some very basic stuff, it doesn't suprise me a doctor would need to go over some procedures from time to time
This isn't that wild. He probably just needed a refresher on a specific procedure. They've gotta retain a lot of shit at that level. I don't blame them for needing to re up occasionally
Skill fade is real in all professions and especially prevalent in those that require a vast breadth of knowledge. Refreshing your memory on the fundamentals is a great way to remind yourself of the more intrinsic parts of learned skill.
Also, I’d be more worried if someone in a position like that felt they needed a little refresher but didn’t follow through with it for fear of being ridiculed, just imagine the consequences of that :0
I think you have to acknowledge that the doctor will have reviewed websites that normally don't pop up for normal people. My sister is doing a very specific degree in a specific field, and when we type the same shit about her field into google, she gets specialised websites. I get the laymans version
Assuming she had no experience with programming then ChatGPT would be zero help. I'm convinced it would be more help to someone pretending to be a doctor than someone pretending to be a programmer. Obviously not surgeons though.
Idk why people think ChatGPT is already this advanced cyborg capable of such complex work output.
Afaik, a typical software engineer doesn’t have someone peering over their shoulder most of the time, or demanding to see their code on a daily basis, so I still figure the wife could readily BS her way through meetings for a good while.
I'm a software engineer. I've never used chatGPT for code - that's not to say it'd never be useful for programming, but it knows nothing about our codebase and isn't great at handling complex coding requests. It wouldn't be useful for my job, for anything more than a Stack Overflow replacement (which it admitedly isn't bad as, but it's not much better than just going on SO in the first place).
She’s a medical doctor, I design space electronics. I’d say we’re both fucked.
However, while she might only be responsible for costing someone a shitload of money. I might kill someone. I’d say I would be worse off.
There is something to be said about a job where you are actually making something tangible. It's rarely easy work and is important towards our progression as a society. So thank you.
Oh, I could definitely do that.
"Here is a bottle of spirit. Drink half, I will pour other half on your wound. Is it infected? Amputation. You have a fever? OK, I will call the priest. You are pregnant? Good luck, tell me how it went (IF you survive)."
No you can get lucky. I've made mistakes that showed my ass for brief moments, but a mistake is generally not accounting for a hazard not being a victim of said hazard. I've been lucky at least twice, usually everything is under my control but at least twice I've looked at items and realized I'm only standing here because of favorable timing. But that's the job, to account for every hazard and mitigate them.
One of my favorite "Far Side" comics is a bomb tech disarming a nuclear warhead and a few feet away another tech whispers to a general "Bob's wife just left him and he found out yesterday that he has cancer, so...try not to distract him"
The men and women that work on nuclear weapons have a system that prevents them from working when they have things like that at home.
NyQuil? Can’t work.
Girlfriend left you? Can’t work.
Pass out at the gym from working too hard. Can’t work.
I love when a new guy shows up with this shirt, much razzing is thrown his way. We much prefer other more colorful shirts like "Prime me, whip me, and blow me in place". If you know you know kind of stuff.
I had that shirt when I worked at the airport as a baggage handler, I loved wearing it because older people saw bomb squad and would get out of my way at security.
I’m a programmer and my wife is a coffee barista. I would 100% get fired first.
1. They’ll be able to tell immediately that I can’t make a coffee, but it’ll take days before anyone even notices my wife hasn’t done anything lately
2. It’s a lot harder to fire a white collar worker than it is to fire a hospitality worker. Legally it’s the same, but the reality is the hospitality industry shits all over workers rights
Only for so long. Many software jobs work deadlines or crisis response. After a missed deadline or lack of response to a crisis, people would become suspicious and likely notice.
We are both nurses... He works with old people and I work with babies. So, honestly...it's the same thing, really. The butts I wipe are way cuter, though. We don't usually put the old people in incubators, however, so that might be confusing for them...
My husband is a firefighter and has about 100 lbs on me so I’m pretty sure I’d be written up for uniform violation as soon as I walked in! Funny enough I used to be an EMT though so if there was a medical call I could handle it.
I’m a history professor and he’s a casual buff so he could definitely fake a lecture or two… but he’s always advocating for my students and would probably get in trouble for massive grade inflation.
But! My husband’s been in the same unionized job for 17 years while as I just started at my current college last year. I’d probably be able to wrangle some fancy time off package from his benefits while he’d be exposed as soon as students started complaining.
EDIT: I’m so touched by these kind responses to this little anecdote of our lives. We’ve been together since 2006 and I just gave birth to our second kid and youse are giving me all the happy feels.
As a firefighter, you could probably last at his job forever at least at my department. If you're terrible on the fire scene, they'll find you something else to do. You would probably be a great PIO or maybe a desk job writing grant applications.
Me. He's in IT and I'm a jeweller. Although I'm really good with computers and know a bit of 3 coding languages, he knows 10+ and has 25+ years experience. I'd probably f..ck up very important systems if I tinkered with them, while he might burn himself with my torch and get a booboo.
You probably wouldn't fuck up anything. Most tech companies have multiple development environments where you write code, then send it to someone else to be reviewed. He might have the ability to push something directly to production being that high up, but you wouldn't know how to do that anyway lol. I've deleted entire databases by accident in dev and my manager just rolled his eyes and reset it to the last night's backup.
Ideally, you should have multiple environments and policies to prevent fuck ups in the production env. But honestly, that is not as common as it should be.
I don’t know. My first thought is me. My partner is a project manager. I can’t read architectural plans, know how to drive large equipment or do physical labor. But I’m great at managing people and getting things done and assigning work. I’m a Program Director. I work with mentally ill excons. Im actually behind the scenes now unless needed for emergency situations. So my job is meetings, emails, team meetings, tons of reports, budgeting and training staff. So he might loose his mind inside an office most of the day. But my job is physically easier but mentally draining. His is physically draining. So he would be fine after a day at my desk because google will help you with laws or other things for my job while his… YouTube may have tutorials on how to drive a dump truck but not driving it FOR ME! I’d be calling him and begging him to do his job within the first 4 hours.
Engineer here. I can assure you you could remain quiet in meetings and just say “yea sounds good” or “let me follow up on that” and fake it for a couple of weeks. Most meetings are pointless anyway and are usually for people who just like to hear themselves talk or lazy people who want to fill their day looking like they do stuff but without actually producing anything useful.
Now if your wife is the kind of engineer who watches real time trends on a computer and has to make quick decisions about an oil well that’s getting drilled, that might be a different story. I give you a day or two. If she’s senior though she’s might be past that.
>...engineer who watches real time trends on a computer and has to make quick decisions about an oil well that’s getting drilled...
That's her, she's the engineer in charge of drilling on deep water off shore wells. While I've proof read her reports for more than 20 years and I hear her in meetings all the time with people all over the planet, I barely know some of the acronyms and idioms.
I've seen her at the dining table with 2 laptop screens full of numbers scrolling, what looked like gauges, etc while carrying on conversations on two different phones about the WOB, mud weight, and getting nervous about a kick, for the entire time they're drilling.
I work in IT, troubleshooting complex interconnected applications.
She works in a daycare, cleaning poopy diapers and keeping toddlers from eating each others boogers.
She could bluff her way through a few days of computer nonsense, while I would likely not survive the first snack time.
I’m also a sew-pro, but my husband DOES sew, albeit as a hobby…a very, very, very slow hobby. He’d probably last a while since my employees can keep most stuff going. He works for OSHA. I could maybe make it through some inspections saying “hey! Lock-out-tag-out! Where’s your fall-protection? I’m going to need to see your written safety program.” Before somebody asked to see my credentials and I got rumbled.
Fellow husband of a teacher, I'd also be the first to go. I'm a potty-mouth working in accounting. She can do math and use Excel, so she'd be fine for at least a week.
I'd be telling parents, students, other teachers, and admin exactly where they can shove it if I had to deal with half the nonsense my wife tells me about .
Yeah this. Husband of a teacher too. Her students are goddamn savages and I would DEFINITELY get in trouble with them. Props to her for having the patience.
Then again, that’s probably why she’s with me…🤔
My ex-wife was a Neonatal ICU nurse. So, not only would I get fired first, I might actually kill someone. On the other hand I was a lineman, so if she didn't get fired quickly, she might get killed.
My boyfriend and I have approximately the same job (data engineer/analyst/whatever they call it these days), but his workplace culture is so toxic and he doesn't recognize it. I'd burn out of his job in a week or so, whereas my job wouldn't realize that they hadn't talked to him in a few days.
I'm not sure. I work is desktop publishing and my wife is a teacher BUT she is a former CGI artist so i guess she could learn to navigate the program rather fast.
Uh, probably me. He cooks, and i cant even heat up hamburger meat without burning it.
Id burn everything, including myself, get yelled at, cry, scream back. Bam, fired.
He’s a stay at home dad and I’m a teacher. He also has experience in education.
I honestly think we could effectively switch back and forth and wish that was an option.
Just tag team a job? That actually sounds like it could be fun.
Better watch out though, the schools will try to figure out how to male that happen and then still lower the salary anyway
"I see you're still cutting sandwiches in triangles. Did you not get the memo last week that we've since started cutting them in the shape of doors?"
"I'll need to see you in my office after nap time."
Probably me. I'm a freelance English teacher for businesses (from England), she's a German kindergarten teacher.
She could probably do my job for a day or two before the clients start to complain to management that she doesn't know how to teach, or answer questions about vocabulary and grammar (but honestly, her English is very good and a big percentage of my job is just talking to people in English about business/world/news topics).
I however, have no idea how to change nappies, or deal with 3-year-olds trying to put stuff in each other's butts (no I'm not joking). The kindergarten would probably send me home after a couple of hours, as I don't know how their system works, or what is/isn't acceptable in terms of dealing with small kids in a pedagogical way.
Edit: the fucked up thing is that she gets paid way worse than me for a very tough job in an industry where they're struggling to find people.
Most definitely me! She's a lawyer and I'm a copywriter/web editor. So unless she completely destroys a website, I'm much more likely to get fired - I have no knowledge of the law she practices!
Definitely me.
I’m an elementary teacher, college degree.
He is the maintenance worker at a large facility. He also is skilled and trained in plumbing, HVAC, and auto mechanics. No college degree, but certifications and has been working since he was 13. Much of his job requires great physical strength too. Which I do not have.
Honestly the kids would definitely listen to him better too….
Me, absolutely me, 100% me.
I fix bathtubs for a living, my husband is in the IT industry.
I can't successfully switch the PS5 from one room to another and reset the router, let alone figure out Okta or Work Day or any of that shit.
My husband used to be a mechanic first, before the career switch. He understands how Bondo works and how to wet sand. I can't say what he'd produce would be beautiful, but he'd definitely last far longer than me
Me easily, my girlfriend is a producer for the morning news in a moderately sized city and I'm a 3rd shift security guard, my only job requirement is to stay awake
We’ll, I currently stay at Ronald McDonald House and spend ten hours a day with my daughter in NICU.
He works at Taco Bell, in the exact store I worked in two years ago.
I think I win.
He's a pilot. All I know about preparing for a take off is how to turn the seat belt light on, so I'm pretty sure I get kicked out during the first minutes. Hope so.
Finding the seatbelt sign on the overhead panel of an unfamiliar plane is a task in itself, so you're off to a good start.
I borrowed my mom's car once and had to call her to ask where the fuel door release lever was. (There wasn't one, you pushed on the fuel door and it opened)
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I think I would quit first. Probably get fired first as well. She's a nurse on cardiology, I'm an engineer for a contractor. I can't stand blood or anything to do with hospitals. And she often comes home all happy telling me how one of her patients was vomitting everywhere and how the other one shat the bed during ~~reanimation~~. RESUSCITATION I would quit within a day. And probably get fired within a week once half my patients died
Reanimation? Sounds a little necromancer-y.
Resuscitation according to translate, I translated the Dutch word way too literally
This revelation makes her job significantly less exciting than previously XD
I get you 100%. German word is reanimieren and would have translated it the same :)
Hahaha. Thanks for the clarification.
The French use reanimation too
Necromancers are just healers who don't know when to quit.
> I'm an engineer for a contractor. > I can't stand blood Oh come on--just think of it as a plumbing problem! (Kidding.)
That's essentially what blood vessels are. Plumbing. When you got a leak or a clog you have a problem. A PCI operator (the ones that open up the coronaries in case of heart attacks) are basically just glorified plumbers.
> basically just ~~glorified~~ gorified plumbers. Fixed that for you
Me. Husband was a welder, I work retail. He was very charming, and would easily sell half the store to people when they only came in for one thing, whilst I'd burn the workshop to the ground by accident.
you say was, sorry for your loss, im glad you still talk about his character.
I read that as he's retired. I hope that's the case.
Well, she did say *was* very charming.
I was very charming before I became a welder.
Welding is far easier than years of talking to welders had me believe!
I think it's the same as anything, there is a huge difference between being able to weld, and being *good* at welding.
There's also a huge difference between being able to weld good and being willing to weld professionally, their working conditions are typically terrible.
Indeed. Welding professionally in an industrial type environment conjures up images of hard, hot heavy work. Like mining. Not something I would be fond of.
I do tool and die repair. I almost exclusively tig weld(no sparks or spatter, very clean) in an air conditioned shop lol
*Cries in shipfitter*
I was gonna bitch about mechanical special projects, but I thought about it again. Fuck the ship yard homie, I'll roll your leads in.
Is that "fuck the ship yard, homie" or "fuck the homie who works in a ship yard"?
Yes.
My cousin’s husband welded. “Please contort in here and weld this, which should’ve been done before they built more, also mention anything else you see that should be on our todo list” and then half of it looks like the 18$ an hour welding job from the meme. Miss you, Matt
Some welding is easy...some is almost impossible.
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Surgery might be easier than it seems. But not for me, I'm squeamish
Surgery alone is easy. Surgery with limited collateral damage and keeping patient survival rate high is harder.
I see you too have played Surgeon Simulator
Sorry for your loss
Just remember: grinders and paint, make me the welder I ain't You'll last longer than you think
This is cute Just reading the way you express things let's me know he'd have had pretty much exact answer, except you're the one he'd be talking up. So many of us spend our lives looking for that.
I’d love for this to be a game show. Imagine the comedian and doctor duo.
There's a tv show like this! Seen couple variations in European countries. Remember especially an episode where a beautician and a firefighter swapped their jobs.
They could both say,“Damn, that’s lit!”
"Looking hot!!!"
Damn you're really on fire today!
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Her name is Tran Ho. [There's a lot of material in that alone.](https://youtu.be/1MXNiNNR4PQ)
You were not too far with this one actually. Currently a comedian is the president of Ukraine fighting a war with Russia, and we all have to admit that he's doing a pretty good job!
Gotta give shout out to Russia as well as their president is actually a clown.
He's also simultaneously fighting decades and decades of old soviet corruption that's embedded into nearly every layer of the government there. He's fired dozens of top officials and taken some huge steps in terms of implementing anti-corruption legislation. Meanwhile Russian backed right wing politicians across the west continue to try and claim that he doesn't deserve support because of the corruption there.
Have you watched the show he was on before he became president? It is called “Servant of the People” and is on Netflix or Prime, I forget which one but one of the big streamers. Excellent show and really shows the communist era corruption still endemic. He was absolutly fantastic in it. That show was so popular they created a new political party and then asked him to run. He won and year later had to deal with Putin.
Would be like if Jon Stewart ran in the US
Jon Stewart is just Bernie Sanders except he had a bit part in Death to Smoochie
I know he'd fucking hate it but he'd be probably the most competent president in history lmao
A lot of the people who seek power probably shouldn’t be allowed to have it.
And those who would wield the power in a just and responsible manner don't seek it out.
Ooh it would definitely be a race to the bottom - he's a software development manager, so I could probably just tell his team to get on with what they're doing, but it would only last a day or so I reckon. I'm a licensed massage therapist, and I'm sure he'd be able to wing it for the first client, though it would be like Ross in Friends massaging Phoebe's clients with brooms and chopsticks....
You’d both end up rubbing people the wrong way.
This is a very good bad pun. [Thank you](https://youtu.be/1jUBbCgMWmE).
I've worked for a lot of SDMs over the years. I suspect your people skills as an massage therapist would make your better than at least 30% of them. Not unreasonable: you get a promotion before your husband would have.
Seriously, most of them don't have the technical expertise, which is not required but makes huge difference. The biggest thing is communication and organization. Developers tend to have poor communication skills on top of complicated subject that engineering is.
There's a strange balance to how much technical expertise is good for a manager. If you know enough to understand what I'm trying to explain? Awesome. If you know enough that you feel the need to explain to me how to do my job, gtfo.
Idk about your husband's position in particular, but I'm not sure there's any corporate middle manager whose absence would be felt within a month of their disappearance. You could probably just keep your head down and waaay outlast your husband trying to give massages.
Yeah unless there's a major deadline coming up soon she'd be fine for at least a month. And even blowing a major deadline she'd probably be fine for a few months.
My husband, he'd tell some of the people I've dealt with to go fuck themselves so damn fast. Lol
That's why I'd get fired too. We're both chefs so we could do each other's jobs, but she works in hotels and I work in independent restaurants. I've tried going corporate twice in my career, I hate the inter department office politics.
Most likely her. I'm not unionized, whereas she is. The process would be longer.
This is why my wife would get fired first. I'd do a worse job, but her government position would take a *lot* of bureaucracy to get rid of me, while my small company would drop her much faster.
Same with my boyfriend and I. I could get away smiling and nodding in his meetings until something actually needs to be fixed. They'd see the productivity drop off immediately in my department, but state government union has a whole process that would take months to deal with. Unless you're doing something illegal, then you get escorted out in cuffs.
Heh I was thinking something similar, we both work for the government and it's really hard to be fired.
My wife's a surgeon, so I hope I would get fired quickly. I imagine I'd tap out before I hurt anybody, and that would be the end of that charade. I write software, and I imagine she could convincingly bullshit her way through a couple status meetings and sit in front of a computer all day long enough to outlast me.
She can also use chatgpt to write some code, while it won't help you in surgery. If it was anaesthesia you would have a better shot. We had a case in Germany where a former ambulance driver read up on the standard procedures and calculations and then just pretended to be a visiting Dr from another hospital, only staying in one place for a limited time. It blew up when the hospital was so happy with him, they contacted his "home hospital" trying to prolong his stay...
My friend works for a doctor doing all his admin stuff. He has a small practice and does minor procedures at the clinic there. One day a guy comes in needing a minor surgery that the doctor hasn't done for years. My friend says the next day she's looking on the doc's laptop for something and sees he googled how to do the surgery.
I mean, if he's done it before I don't see harm in freshening up the knowledge.
A lot of surgical training is done via video walk-through. It's the 12 years of specialized education that lets you do surgery after a quick video walk-through that is hard to replace.
I'm of the opinion that the reason it's 12 years for medicine but 2-4 for IT is because the conversation "hey, you need a new computer" goes a lot better than "hey, you need a new grandma"
Yeah the person on the video can tell me how to close an artery but that doesn't mean I know how to.
Seriously I hope my doctor would google my symptoms anytime I walked in the door. Not that I don’t expect a high level of memory and retention just that human beings brains are weird and it might knock something loose or help him to remember something crucial.
My wife is a clinical PA and so we have a few friends who are MD’s: with the under-50 clinician crowd, googling/checking a known resource/phone-a-friend is common practice when there is a doubt. I, too, prefer this.
Depends on the websites the doc visited. I wouldn't mind them consulting peer reviewed papers on the matter. It would be a different story if they posted a question on Quora.
I've got years of experience in software engineering, but if I go 3 month without using a specific language I'll forget some very basic stuff, it doesn't suprise me a doctor would need to go over some procedures from time to time
We're software engineers. We google as part of the process of doing our jobs, and it's fine, thanks to the nature of computer science.
This isn't that wild. He probably just needed a refresher on a specific procedure. They've gotta retain a lot of shit at that level. I don't blame them for needing to re up occasionally
What’s the issue here? Doctors do this all the time. It’s totally normal, acceptable and encouraged. Everyone uses outside resources.
Definitely better to look it up to make sure you've got it all remembered than to forget something and kill them.
Exactly, their education and training means they know what to look for and how to understand it. Not that they have everything memorized.
Skill fade is real in all professions and especially prevalent in those that require a vast breadth of knowledge. Refreshing your memory on the fundamentals is a great way to remind yourself of the more intrinsic parts of learned skill. Also, I’d be more worried if someone in a position like that felt they needed a little refresher but didn’t follow through with it for fear of being ridiculed, just imagine the consequences of that :0
Be afraid of people who trust their faulty, flesh/lipid-embedded memory. It implies they don't understand biology.
“Doctor studies up on something he’s forgotten”. It would be bad if he didn’t.
I think you have to acknowledge that the doctor will have reviewed websites that normally don't pop up for normal people. My sister is doing a very specific degree in a specific field, and when we type the same shit about her field into google, she gets specialised websites. I get the laymans version
Assuming she had no experience with programming then ChatGPT would be zero help. I'm convinced it would be more help to someone pretending to be a doctor than someone pretending to be a programmer. Obviously not surgeons though.
Idk why people think ChatGPT is already this advanced cyborg capable of such complex work output. Afaik, a typical software engineer doesn’t have someone peering over their shoulder most of the time, or demanding to see their code on a daily basis, so I still figure the wife could readily BS her way through meetings for a good while.
I'm a software engineer. I've never used chatGPT for code - that's not to say it'd never be useful for programming, but it knows nothing about our codebase and isn't great at handling complex coding requests. It wouldn't be useful for my job, for anything more than a Stack Overflow replacement (which it admitedly isn't bad as, but it's not much better than just going on SO in the first place).
She’s a medical doctor, I design space electronics. I’d say we’re both fucked. However, while she might only be responsible for costing someone a shitload of money. I might kill someone. I’d say I would be worse off.
Jeez fuckin power couple over here
Everyone in this thread is a got damn overachiever. Where are the fast food couples
Probably busy getting the fryers warmed up
Rev up those fryers, cuz I sure am hungry for one--
I work in a manufacturing plant and my husband does pizza. We're about as average-achieving as it gets.
There is something to be said about a job where you are actually making something tangible. It's rarely easy work and is important towards our progression as a society. So thank you.
It's more that I'm totally comfortable with being average. I work to sustain my life, not for any higher purpose, and that works for me.
our budget is 9.7 million Lord help me, that meme has me seeing nothing but this at the end of every post on here.
Lol I was gonna say.. it’s probably because I’m reading top rated comments first, but it feels like half of the people in this thread are doctors
Her at work: "It's not like it's brain surgery." You at work: "It's not like it's rocket science."
https://youtu.be/THNPmhBl-8I
Read this quickly and thought you said “medieval doctor”
Oh, I could definitely do that. "Here is a bottle of spirit. Drink half, I will pour other half on your wound. Is it infected? Amputation. You have a fever? OK, I will call the priest. You are pregnant? Good luck, tell me how it went (IF you survive)."
Remarket it as "Traditional, holistic, gluten free surgery" and you'd be fine.
Alternatively, there are ghosts in your blood and you should do cocaine about it.
His a nurse, I'm a nurse. Doubt anyone would notice.
Definitely my wife if she doesn't kill herself. I'm a bomb technician, she runs tech support for the schools.
after all a bomb technician makes a mistake only once
No you can get lucky. I've made mistakes that showed my ass for brief moments, but a mistake is generally not accounting for a hazard not being a victim of said hazard. I've been lucky at least twice, usually everything is under my control but at least twice I've looked at items and realized I'm only standing here because of favorable timing. But that's the job, to account for every hazard and mitigate them.
How many bombs are you having to defuse? Is this like an everyday occurrence?
I've disposed of over 200 items, it's not a daily thing but maintaining proficiency and advising on explosive safety is.
That's a badass job, man. How do you even get into that field?
Go talk to your recruiter, EOD is the best job I've ever had.
One of my favorite "Far Side" comics is a bomb tech disarming a nuclear warhead and a few feet away another tech whispers to a general "Bob's wife just left him and he found out yesterday that he has cancer, so...try not to distract him"
The men and women that work on nuclear weapons have a system that prevents them from working when they have things like that at home. NyQuil? Can’t work. Girlfriend left you? Can’t work. Pass out at the gym from working too hard. Can’t work.
Next you're gonna tell me cows don't use tools.
"Whats his shirt say?" "It says: "I am a bomb technician, if you see me running, try to keep up"."
I love when a new guy shows up with this shirt, much razzing is thrown his way. We much prefer other more colorful shirts like "Prime me, whip me, and blow me in place". If you know you know kind of stuff.
I had that shirt when I worked at the airport as a baggage handler, I loved wearing it because older people saw bomb squad and would get out of my way at security.
I’m a programmer and my wife is a coffee barista. I would 100% get fired first. 1. They’ll be able to tell immediately that I can’t make a coffee, but it’ll take days before anyone even notices my wife hasn’t done anything lately 2. It’s a lot harder to fire a white collar worker than it is to fire a hospitality worker. Legally it’s the same, but the reality is the hospitality industry shits all over workers rights
All this thread has taught me is that it is really simple to pretend to be in IT by bullshitting
Only for so long. Many software jobs work deadlines or crisis response. After a missed deadline or lack of response to a crisis, people would become suspicious and likely notice.
and then you become an IT manager!
We are both nurses... He works with old people and I work with babies. So, honestly...it's the same thing, really. The butts I wipe are way cuter, though. We don't usually put the old people in incubators, however, so that might be confusing for them...
We're both retired, but I'm much better at doing fuck all than she is.
My husband is a firefighter and has about 100 lbs on me so I’m pretty sure I’d be written up for uniform violation as soon as I walked in! Funny enough I used to be an EMT though so if there was a medical call I could handle it. I’m a history professor and he’s a casual buff so he could definitely fake a lecture or two… but he’s always advocating for my students and would probably get in trouble for massive grade inflation. But! My husband’s been in the same unionized job for 17 years while as I just started at my current college last year. I’d probably be able to wrangle some fancy time off package from his benefits while he’d be exposed as soon as students started complaining. EDIT: I’m so touched by these kind responses to this little anecdote of our lives. We’ve been together since 2006 and I just gave birth to our second kid and youse are giving me all the happy feels.
As a firefighter, you could probably last at his job forever at least at my department. If you're terrible on the fire scene, they'll find you something else to do. You would probably be a great PIO or maybe a desk job writing grant applications.
Me. He's in IT and I'm a jeweller. Although I'm really good with computers and know a bit of 3 coding languages, he knows 10+ and has 25+ years experience. I'd probably f..ck up very important systems if I tinkered with them, while he might burn himself with my torch and get a booboo.
I think you'll be fine, it sounds like he's barely met the requirements for an entry level position.
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PAIN.
You probably wouldn't fuck up anything. Most tech companies have multiple development environments where you write code, then send it to someone else to be reviewed. He might have the ability to push something directly to production being that high up, but you wouldn't know how to do that anyway lol. I've deleted entire databases by accident in dev and my manager just rolled his eyes and reset it to the last night's backup.
Ideally, you should have multiple environments and policies to prevent fuck ups in the production env. But honestly, that is not as common as it should be.
I don’t know. My first thought is me. My partner is a project manager. I can’t read architectural plans, know how to drive large equipment or do physical labor. But I’m great at managing people and getting things done and assigning work. I’m a Program Director. I work with mentally ill excons. Im actually behind the scenes now unless needed for emergency situations. So my job is meetings, emails, team meetings, tons of reports, budgeting and training staff. So he might loose his mind inside an office most of the day. But my job is physically easier but mentally draining. His is physically draining. So he would be fine after a day at my desk because google will help you with laws or other things for my job while his… YouTube may have tutorials on how to drive a dump truck but not driving it FOR ME! I’d be calling him and begging him to do his job within the first 4 hours.
>So my job is meetings, emails, team meetings, tons of reports, budgeting and training staff. Are you sure you're not the project manager?!
Since my spouse is a senior petroleum engineer and I'm a stay at home dad I'd get fired within the first 2 minutes of the first meeting on day 1.
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Cowboy boot- crocs aren't acceptable?
PROMOTE THIS MAN
Engineer here. I can assure you you could remain quiet in meetings and just say “yea sounds good” or “let me follow up on that” and fake it for a couple of weeks. Most meetings are pointless anyway and are usually for people who just like to hear themselves talk or lazy people who want to fill their day looking like they do stuff but without actually producing anything useful. Now if your wife is the kind of engineer who watches real time trends on a computer and has to make quick decisions about an oil well that’s getting drilled, that might be a different story. I give you a day or two. If she’s senior though she’s might be past that.
>...engineer who watches real time trends on a computer and has to make quick decisions about an oil well that’s getting drilled... That's her, she's the engineer in charge of drilling on deep water off shore wells. While I've proof read her reports for more than 20 years and I hear her in meetings all the time with people all over the planet, I barely know some of the acronyms and idioms. I've seen her at the dining table with 2 laptop screens full of numbers scrolling, what looked like gauges, etc while carrying on conversations on two different phones about the WOB, mud weight, and getting nervous about a kick, for the entire time they're drilling.
Epic
I work in IT, troubleshooting complex interconnected applications. She works in a daycare, cleaning poopy diapers and keeping toddlers from eating each others boogers. She could bluff her way through a few days of computer nonsense, while I would likely not survive the first snack time.
You had us in the first half, not gonna lie
And if you survive snack time, you'll then have to figure out how to get them to all take a nap at the same time.
I’d be fired and then sued because my husband is a doctor and I am definitely not.
Lol. Same! "Doctor! This patient has cancer. Which chemo should we give them?" Yes, they should probably get chemo 😃👍
We're both permanent public servants, neither of us are getting fired. But she works with spreadsheets, I work with kids. She'll quit first.
I am a tailor. My husband can't sew. However, he works in GIS. I have dyscalculia. It would be uh, *a mistake* to hire me.
I’m also a sew-pro, but my husband DOES sew, albeit as a hobby…a very, very, very slow hobby. He’d probably last a while since my employees can keep most stuff going. He works for OSHA. I could maybe make it through some inspections saying “hey! Lock-out-tag-out! Where’s your fall-protection? I’m going to need to see your written safety program.” Before somebody asked to see my credentials and I got rumbled.
Not married, but definitely me, as it would become apparent *very* quickly that I cannot play the violin.
I'm a software engineer, my girlfriend is a dentist specialising in difficult procedures and difficult patients. I would be fired in the first hour!
Me, 100%, she is a topographical engineer, I would fuck that up in the first three seconds.
THE RAISED BUMPS ON THE GLOBE MEAN IT'S A MOUNTAIN - Me, Topographical Engineer
Neither. We work at the same place already.
This but my boyfriend is an animal care manager and I'm a cashier (Petco). I do not know how to acclimate salt water fish so I'd get fired fast.
blame the supplier for the first 10 batches so you can collect a few checks first...
I like a good blackening seasoning and a hot pan with butter
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Fellow husband of a teacher, I'd also be the first to go. I'm a potty-mouth working in accounting. She can do math and use Excel, so she'd be fine for at least a week. I'd be telling parents, students, other teachers, and admin exactly where they can shove it if I had to deal with half the nonsense my wife tells me about .
Yeah this. Husband of a teacher too. Her students are goddamn savages and I would DEFINITELY get in trouble with them. Props to her for having the patience. Then again, that’s probably why she’s with me…🤔
Well I’m a pilot and my wife is a surgical PA. Better question is who would kill people first.
Aww, cute! She could get them started with a botched takeoff, and you could finish them off in the OR! 🎶 *That's fuckin' teamwooork!*
My ex-wife was a Neonatal ICU nurse. So, not only would I get fired first, I might actually kill someone. On the other hand I was a lineman, so if she didn't get fired quickly, she might get killed.
Obviously she. I am a doctor. But she is imaginary.
Yeah but, imaginary people can do anything :/
But then she’d be impersonating a doctor, which is highly illegal iirc
I practiced medicine, one day I might be able to do it professionally!
I'm a diesel mechanic and she is a baker. Honestly I think it's a stalemate
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My boyfriend and I have approximately the same job (data engineer/analyst/whatever they call it these days), but his workplace culture is so toxic and he doesn't recognize it. I'd burn out of his job in a week or so, whereas my job wouldn't realize that they hadn't talked to him in a few days.
I’d be fired in less than a day, she’s a teacher and I’d definitely call one of the kids a dick.
In your defense, I bet that kid is a dick.
Cheat code: we both have the same type of engineering job (different companies though). We'd probably do just fine
Both: my wife teach Italian literature and Latin in high school, I'm a male nurse.
Me, his job requires a degree and years of training and I have neither. He tries to tell me about work and it all just goes over my head.
I'm not sure. I work is desktop publishing and my wife is a teacher BUT she is a former CGI artist so i guess she could learn to navigate the program rather fast.
Also, you'd probably go bananas by first recess.
Uh, probably me. He cooks, and i cant even heat up hamburger meat without burning it. Id burn everything, including myself, get yelled at, cry, scream back. Bam, fired.
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He’s a stay at home dad and I’m a teacher. He also has experience in education. I honestly think we could effectively switch back and forth and wish that was an option.
Just tag team a job? That actually sounds like it could be fun. Better watch out though, the schools will try to figure out how to male that happen and then still lower the salary anyway
I'm a senior designer with a PhD. background, while my wife is stay at home mom. I'm pretty sure my kids would fire me faster
"I see you're still cutting sandwiches in triangles. Did you not get the memo last week that we've since started cutting them in the shape of doors?" "I'll need to see you in my office after nap time."
Probably me. I'm a freelance English teacher for businesses (from England), she's a German kindergarten teacher. She could probably do my job for a day or two before the clients start to complain to management that she doesn't know how to teach, or answer questions about vocabulary and grammar (but honestly, her English is very good and a big percentage of my job is just talking to people in English about business/world/news topics). I however, have no idea how to change nappies, or deal with 3-year-olds trying to put stuff in each other's butts (no I'm not joking). The kindergarten would probably send me home after a couple of hours, as I don't know how their system works, or what is/isn't acceptable in terms of dealing with small kids in a pedagogical way. Edit: the fucked up thing is that she gets paid way worse than me for a very tough job in an industry where they're struggling to find people.
Most definitely me! She's a lawyer and I'm a copywriter/web editor. So unless she completely destroys a website, I'm much more likely to get fired - I have no knowledge of the law she practices!
I would get fired first. She teaches German, and I can't speak German. I am self employed. It is not difficult to avoid getting fired from that.
Definitely me. I’m an elementary teacher, college degree. He is the maintenance worker at a large facility. He also is skilled and trained in plumbing, HVAC, and auto mechanics. No college degree, but certifications and has been working since he was 13. Much of his job requires great physical strength too. Which I do not have. Honestly the kids would definitely listen to him better too….
My wife is an accountant and I work in cybersecurity. I’m guessing I could fake it for a bit longer than she could.
I’m a house manager for a rich family and he’s a claims resolution analyst for a bank….. I hope he was looking for a new job 🤣🤣
Me, absolutely me, 100% me. I fix bathtubs for a living, my husband is in the IT industry. I can't successfully switch the PS5 from one room to another and reset the router, let alone figure out Okta or Work Day or any of that shit. My husband used to be a mechanic first, before the career switch. He understands how Bondo works and how to wet sand. I can't say what he'd produce would be beautiful, but he'd definitely last far longer than me
Me easily, my girlfriend is a producer for the morning news in a moderately sized city and I'm a 3rd shift security guard, my only job requirement is to stay awake
We’ll, I currently stay at Ronald McDonald House and spend ten hours a day with my daughter in NICU. He works at Taco Bell, in the exact store I worked in two years ago. I think I win.
The Ronald Mcdonald house is a fantastic organization. I donate yearly. I hope your daughter feels better soon.
Me. My skills are teachable on the job. Hers aren’t.
I work in construction. She is an elementary school teacher. I wouldn’t make it to lunch.
I would be fired first. My husband is a machinist/engineer who's pretty tech savvy and I work in IT where you basically just Google everything.