Molly Struve (she/her)

Posted on Dec 12, 2018

Describe Your Job With a GIF!

#discuss #gif #fun

HAPPY Hump Day!!! Thought this might be something fun to do to break up the week. What GIF would you use to describe your job and why?

Here is the GIF I would use to describe what it's like being a Site Reliability Engineer.

Often when we speed one thing up the load transfers to another. You put out one fire and you start one somewhere else. Sometimes it's a little hectic, but I wouldn't have it any other way! :D

Let's see your GIFs!

Discussion (126)

Jonas Winzen • Dec 13 '18

Kohpai Bamboo • Dec 13 '18

I want to hit more than one 💓 for this.

George Calianu • Dec 13 '18 • Edited on Dec 13

Molly Struve (she/her) • Dec 13 '18

omg lol this is EPIC!

Rick Booth • May 20 '19

This is amazing and scarily accurate ha!

bassirou diaby • Dec 18 '18

awesome

ItsASine (Kayla) • Dec 12 '18

Mark Nicol • Dec 12 '18 • Edited on Dec 12

Molly Struve (she/her) • Dec 13 '18

HAHAHA I was waiting for someone to pull out an IT Crowd GIF. Such a good show!

Mark Nicol • Dec 13 '18

Can't argue with that. It is one of my all time favourite shows. :)

Nathan Bland • Dec 12 '18

QA:

Molly Struve (she/her) • Dec 13 '18

This GIF just went in our QA slack channel and got major props :D

Thomas H Jones II • Dec 13 '18

You misspelled "IA"

Ben Sinclair • Dec 12 '18

dsanchezseco • Dec 14 '18

totally accurate!

Kasey Speakman • Dec 12 '18 • Edited on Dec 12

I have dozens of these in my head, each for a different aspect of an app.

Molly Struve (she/her) • Dec 12 '18

Nothing beats a good XKCD!

Humberto Raposa • Dec 13 '18

Klemen Slavič • Dec 12 '18

Ben Halpern • Dec 12 '18

Molly Struve (she/her) • Dec 13 '18 • Edited on Dec 13

Oh have definitely had more than a few days like this!

Dana Ottaviani • Jul 13 '19

First time I saw this I laughed so hard I cried. This is what fixing a bug in production feels like. 😆

Senpo • Dec 13 '18 • Edited on Dec 13

I'm choosing the 5th circle of developer hell

Azri Azmi • Dec 18 '18

so good i looked for the full ver: blog.toggl.com/seven-levels-develo...

Jack Harner 🚀 • Dec 12 '18

Glenn Stovall • Dec 12 '18

Adrian B.G. • Dec 12 '18

For now I'm in paternal leave

Gil Creque • Dec 13 '18 • Edited on Dec 13

But I am also ops 😑

Ashwin Vaswani • Dec 12 '18

Ben Halpern • Dec 12 '18

Molly Struve (she/her) • Dec 12 '18

OMG YES! I def feel like this some days!

Ankur Biswas • Dec 13 '18

Sarthak Sharma • Dec 13 '18

and when you call me

Sarthak Sharma • Dec 13 '18

also me sometimes

Aamir Madari • Dec 12 '18 • Edited on Dec 12

Going to have to bend the rules and use two GIFs to cover all use cases.

Any client facing developer will feel this when going through ridiculous, nonsensical amends.

Rafael A • Dec 12 '18

not a gif but...

Molly Struve (she/her) • Dec 13 '18 • Edited on Dec 13

"I really thought this was going to work out fine..."

Max Ong Zong Bao • Dec 13 '18

Me in the startup that learns by doing daily.

Molly Struve (she/her) • Dec 13 '18

Had this moment IRL today and it was fabulous :D twitter.com/molly_struve/status/10...

Michael Lee 🍕 • Dec 14 '18

Molly Struve (she/her) • Dec 14 '18

Sometimes you are and then other times, 2 days later, "No, really, this time I am close!" 😂

Thomas Rayner • Dec 12 '18

It's not a gif but I did make it for my job. Some days are better than others...

Vikas Rana • Dec 13 '18

true

ItsASine (Kayla) • Dec 12 '18

kamilliano • Dec 17 '18

Exequiel Beker • Dec 13 '18

Everyday :C

Molly Struve (she/her) • Dec 13 '18

Me IRL after I set something on fire lol

Ross Henderson • Dec 13 '18

Waiting for stuff to get signed off like...

Stanley Nelson • Dec 13 '18

This would be mine. Not a lot of devs to work with and they’d be the only ones to get what I do.

Molly Struve (she/her) • Dec 13 '18

GREAT movie!!! The guys I work with got me to watch it for the first time last year, not I constantly pull PR GIFs from it.

Franco Donati • Sep 21 '19

Do you remember the name of the movie? I have never seen and am curious to watch it

Molly Struve (she/her) • Sep 21 '19

Office Space!

Anthony Bouvier • Dec 13 '18

Molly Struve (she/her) • Dec 13 '18

It's just a flesh wound...

Raunak Ramakrishnan • Dec 17 '18

Waiting for the Holy hand grenade one :)

Saulo Vargas • Jan 5 '19

I thought in this very gif, just checking nobody posted it before me... ✅

Carsten Gehling • Dec 18 '18

I was scrolling down the comments, waiting for this one to pop up. :-)

Daniel Starner • Dec 12 '18

Waiting to see if your deployment succeeds:

Daniel Starner • Dec 12 '18

AANNNNDDD then it fails

Stefanie Grunwald • Dec 16 '18 • Edited on Dec 16

Molly Struve (she/her) • Dec 16 '18

Lol that's a good one 😀

Nicolas Beaussart • Dec 13 '18

JustinK • Dec 12 '18

tennixpl • Dec 13 '18

Tiago Marques • Dec 13 '18

Vipul • Dec 12 '18

JustinK • Dec 12 '18

I can hear this gif

Quentin Sonrel • Dec 13 '18

When I see the code I have to work with

Steven Rockarts • Dec 17 '18

When I hear the deadline was last week.

Molly Struve (she/her) • Dec 17 '18

Go, go, gadget coding hands! lol

morgana • Mar 30 '19

Jason Huebel • Jun 12 '19

I can hear him saying the line in my head... I nearly spit coffee on my monitor when I saw this. 😂

Molly Struve (she/her) • Mar 30 '19

BAHAHAHA I have never seen this one and I love it!

AjayMalhotra • Dec 13 '18

João Veiga • Dec 12 '18

Shripathy 🚀 • Dec 13 '18

Tramel Jones • Dec 14 '18

Amazing

Rachel Soderberg • Mar 15 '19 • Edited on Mar 15

Me, when the Sales Guy emails saying he hasn't seen his order processed, and it's because I'm fixing a bug.

Molly Struve (she/her) • Mar 15 '19

OMG YES! 😂

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Aug 7 '20

Better late than never...

Depending on the day, my job is...

/somewhere in between.

Molly Struve (she/her) • Aug 8 '20

OMG that first GIF 😂😂

Florian Rand • May 14 '19

Sorry I'm a bit late but this post is amazing!

And my favorite:

Molly Struve (she/her) • May 14 '19 • Edited on May 14

I LOVE all of these!!!! 😍

Craig Nicol (he/him) • Dec 12 '18

I deal with a lot of red tape, so

Giacomo Sorbi • Dec 13 '18

Being a contractor and moving from project to project: i.imgur.com/TOsmDTs.gif

🦄N B🛡 • May 14 '20 • Edited on May 14

Although I'm full time, due to some aspects of my company's new business models this is a sentiment I can co-sign.

And at least in my case, there are a bunch of other pods dropping in formation and Capsule Corporation has issued us all portable Zeppelins... metaphor extension transitions into drifting off into make believe happy place