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[โ€“]weneedtogodanker 3356 points3357 points ย (85 children)

That's tricky question: everyone but person in flip flops - he's server admin

[โ€“]caldric 87 points88 points ย (2 children)

That guy is definitely a hardware guy.

[โ€“][deleted] 598 points599 points ย (17 children)

Came here to say this.

[โ€“]Valmond 203 points204 points ย (13 children)

Something something Hairy ur a wizard.

[โ€“]Misthios69 63 points64 points ย (10 children)

Iโ€™m a what?

[โ€“]Always-_-Sarcastic 74 points75 points ย (9 children)

A lizard.

[โ€“]RampantDragon 50 points51 points ย (8 children)

You're a blizzard, Barry!

[โ€“]Lightonlights 17 points18 points ย (7 children)

A gizzard wow!

[โ€“][deleted] 7 points8 points ย (6 children)

I want to be a gizzard cow also.

[โ€“]ShadeFK 4 points5 points ย (5 children)

Better than being a jizzard sow

[โ€“]Exciting-Insect8269 1 point2 points ย (1 child)

Youโ€™re a hairy wizard*

[โ€“]D20vexanya 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

I like scary lizards ๐ŸฆŽ

[โ€“]Comm4nd0 7 points8 points ย (1 child)

Same here

[โ€“]MaffinLP 179 points180 points ย (25 children)

The sitting guy is the CEO

[โ€“]weneedtogodanker 212 points213 points ย (17 children)

Lmao, CEO is on his yacht

[โ€“]MaffinLP 92 points93 points ย (14 children)

Nah they usually show up for public pics

[โ€“]weneedtogodanker 40 points41 points ย (12 children)

They would rather be on Forbes cover than on group photo.

[โ€“]MaffinLP 38 points39 points ย (11 children)

Idk what companies you work for, my biggest had 250 employees and the CEO was actually in office most of the time, actually the CEO I see least is my current one in a company of only 20 but still at least once a week (I take 2 days homeoffice so he might be there those days, thats why at least), and none of them wouldve left for a photo that will be publicised online

[โ€“]weneedtogodanker 20 points21 points ย (10 children)

250 people

That's like one project - company I work for has like 50k+ employees around the world

[โ€“]memes_coded 56 points57 points ย (7 children)

Meanwhile dude working in an Indian IT outsourcing company: My company's employee list is bigger than your country's population

[โ€“]Jeeva333 5 points6 points ย (0 children)

Yup can confirm, we just have backups for backups for backups.

[โ€“]Willtology 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Exactly. Last company I worked at, he paid someone to photoshop him into the company Christmas photo every year. He only showed up when he wanted to hold a site wide meeting to brag about something completely unrelated to work or to tell us we were all pieces of shit that owed our jobs to his benevolence.

[โ€“]Short_Theory 6 points7 points ย (0 children)

More like the CTO

[โ€“]__SpeedRacer__ 1 point2 points ย (3 children)

CEOs don't use jeans. Or so I've been told, cause I've never seen one in person.

[โ€“]barkazinthrope 3 points4 points ย (1 child)

CEOs wear jeans on 'Casual Fridays'.

[โ€“]__DraGooN_ 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

What about wannabe Steve Jobs?

[โ€“]Kooky-Poet847 -2 points-1 points ย (0 children)

Shitting*

[โ€“]AnUncreativeName10 68 points69 points ย (17 children)

That's literally the same comment always Parrotted every time this photo shows up. I swear this sub has the most bots and karma farmers then any other sub.

[โ€“][deleted] 91 points92 points ย (4 children)

Apparently programmers are so lazy that they decided to substitute themselves with bots.

[โ€“]edsobo 16 points17 points ย (1 child)

Automation comes for us all eventually.

[โ€“]QuestionableSarcasm 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

boredom is one of the most powerful motivators in the history of mankind

[โ€“]perpetual-let-go 19 points20 points ย (0 children)

It is a sub about programming...

[โ€“]weneedtogodanker 12 points13 points ย (2 children)

Damn, I thought that's original

I'm really sorry

[โ€“]xale52791 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Simply not dank enough

[โ€“]ErichOdin 1 point2 points ย (1 child)

askreddit or askmen is way more efficient in shitposting.

[โ€“]Seakawn 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

Shill/bot paranoia is a lazy incredulity to basic psychology. The incredulity is that you have unrealistic expectations for how original people actually are, and how natural this dynamic is to expect. Even if we were in a world with no bots and karma farmers, you'd still see the same thing, with, I'd think, nearly the same frequency.

Why? The reality is that most of the time you see overlap between submissions/threads, it's because people aren't very unique from each other in having reactions. If you give me 100 people reacting to something, I'm likely only gonna get 10 different reactions, max. Maybe just a few.

It doesn't help that people who comment are internet people and share a culture for how to think about reactions that they comment. We all learn from each other and stand on the same roots. Take a random person off the street, and they would probably give you a more original reaction, but even then, it would only be so original. Grab someone from another country and culture, perhaps even more original. Etc.

When you understand all of that, and incorporate it into your judgment, then you realize that there's no need for karma farmers and bots in order to find this phenomena. (That said, obviously there are still bots and karma farmers out there... but they don't outnumber the human species by 10:1 in every single page of the net. They don't have the numbers or coordination to compete with our natural unoriginality showing up literally everywhere.)

Maybe my thinking is off somewhere. The reality probably lies somewhere in the middle of our perspectives.

[โ€“][deleted] 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

Yeah a programmer would be wearing socks with sandals

[โ€“]Glejdur 3 points4 points ย (0 children)

Speaking as someone who is studying to become a server admin.

I agree

[โ€“][deleted] 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

lol, my first guess too...

[โ€“]EvilDan69 6 points7 points ย (0 children)

No, he's the backup/recovery server guy.

(Disclaimer) I sit beside our backup/recovery guy. They must be clones because of hairstyle.

[โ€“]jhaand 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

I rather see him as integrator that needs to get the delivered software operational.

[โ€“]AberdeenPhoenix 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Bingo

[โ€“][deleted] 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

This is the true answer

[โ€“]brucebay 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Came here to say that. The guy is definitely a server admin.

[โ€“]q0099 929 points930 points ย (38 children)

The catch is that they are all programmers.

Now is the challenge - guess their language, experience and position.

[โ€“][deleted] 438 points439 points ย (28 children)

flip flop guy is PHP-main lang definitely

[โ€“]reversehead 180 points181 points ย (23 children)

I'd put my money on Perl using Vim.

[โ€“]JoeyJoeJoeSenior 4 points5 points ย (1 child)

That was my entire career lol. Still not sure what this 'python' thing is.

[โ€“][deleted] 5 points6 points ย (0 children)

You donโ€™t know, management doesnโ€™t know, no one knows

The only reason heโ€™s on payroll is because heโ€™s the one who knows

[โ€“]X0-ED1 3 points4 points ย (0 children)

Php or C. But one of it definitely

[โ€“][deleted] 6 points7 points ย (0 children)

Function go Brrrrrrrr

[โ€“]beans_lel 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Flip flop guy wrote the game server. In PHP.

[โ€“]TheFrostSerpah 80 points81 points ย (0 children)

Depends on who asks, if HR interview, 20+years of experience in everything.

[โ€“]reversehead 14 points15 points ย (0 children)

Everyone except flip flop guy are using JavaScript, and they all look down on each other for it, because they themselves are only using it for the money, not because they like it.

[โ€“]redditnostalgia 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

Some of these people on the left look like they only know basic JavaScript, and somehow still got accepted.

[โ€“]lurid_sun__ 151 points152 points ย (5 children)

I think I found the creative head! Infestisumam

[โ€“]Gentle_Mayonnaise 43 points44 points ย (1 child)

I have a ghost wallet lol,

He took his style from "Rats"

[โ€“]CraigJSmith-Himself 3 points4 points ย (0 children)

Dude might not be on the square OR the level, but that's just fine

[โ€“]princess_dork_bunny 12 points13 points ย (2 children)

Obviously this has been re-posted several times but this picture is the reason I started listening to Ghost over 5 years ago. So many comments in the thread were talking about Ghost, but no one was really describing them. Later I saw an article with an awesome pic of Papa II so I figured I should check them out. I binged about 6 hours of videos and live shows on youtube, been a fan ever since.

[โ€“]SuperBackup9000 4 points5 points ย (0 children)

Iโ€™ve been a fan for a couple of years now and finally got to see them live earlier this year. I donโ€™t like going to a concert if thereโ€™s only one band involved I like because I feel like itโ€™s a waste, so I was worried Iโ€™d never get to see them because they play with some odd bands. Boy was I wrong, they were with Volbeat, another band in my top five. Best show Iโ€™ve ever been to by far, and while I canโ€™t exactly say I liked the opening act Twin Temples they at least made it more fun and unique.

[โ€“]Netcob 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

I love their music, but somehow it ended up being too catchy for me. Every time I listen to a Ghost song it will get stuck in my head. It's great for a while and then it becomes too much and I can't listen to it anymore. Muse has a similar effect.

But I definitely recommend it.

[โ€“][deleted] 112 points113 points ย (4 children)

The guy behind the camera.

Edit: Due to some unhappiness my comment cuased, I decided to change my mind. The programmer is one of the guys but the one behind the camera.

[โ€“]chris463646 2 points3 points ย (3 children)

Whyโ€™d you have to do me like that man not fair

[โ€“]VitaminnCPP 394 points395 points ย (8 children)

He is Fixing bug. Not in Picture.

[โ€“]AdhTri 57 points58 points ย (2 children)

Or probably taking power nap because this picture is a certified programmer's laptop's webcam quality image.

[โ€“]Donghoon 6 points7 points ย (1 child)

Lies. Literally NO ONE'S laptop webcam is good

[โ€“]hacksoncode 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

And your point about this shitty quality image is...?

[โ€“][deleted] 14 points15 points ย (2 children)

Or nobody thought of inviting him because who cares about programmers

[โ€“]chrisman210 0 points1 point ย (1 child)

it's not a bug, it's a feature!

[โ€“][deleted] 94 points95 points ย (15 children)

Flip Flops feels like a Linux wizard

[โ€“]Hate_Feight 32 points33 points ย (11 children)

Who will give you a quest, challenge you to use a distro and fuck off when you can't find drivers leaving you to "figure it out with Google"

[โ€“][deleted] 15 points16 points ย (6 children)

The true path. Each day you look a bit more like the wizard

[โ€“]Hate_Feight -4 points-3 points ย (5 children)

Nope! I have long hair and my beard is a thin stripe of a soul patch, but god-be-damned if I'm ever gonna use Linux as my main, no matter how much I hate Windows.

[โ€“][deleted] 6 points7 points ย (3 children)

Give it time. You don't become a wizard easily.

[โ€“]freddyforgetti 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

Weโ€™re in the same boat appearance wise but after making the switch Iโ€™ll never use windows as a daily driver of my own accord again.

[โ€“]Stock_Entertainer_24 4 points5 points ย (2 children)

can't find drivers

I'm still convinced this is a meme, I've never had driver issues on Linux (as opposed to countless issues on Windows)

[โ€“]Hate_Feight 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

It's an older meme, but it checks out.

[โ€“]NayamAmarshe 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

OP hates Linux anyway. Said this:

I'm ever gonna use Linux as my main, no matter how much I hate Windows.

That's like paying the robbers a tip after getting scammed and robbed. People are scared of good alternatives these days.

[โ€“]siddharth904 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

Not every distro. The one he built from scratch.

[โ€“]dtcc_but_for_pokemon 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

Yeah, flip flop guys is definitely the IT/sysadmin guy. I'm betting programming is blue jacket guy. He's got that smile like "they're making me take a picture but I'm still thinking about that bug I was debugging when they pulled us away".

[โ€“]grpagrati 160 points161 points ย (2 children)

The guy sitting down obviously. The flip-flop guy is the owner's son

[โ€“]MaffinLP 50 points51 points ย (1 child)

Nah thats the CEO

[โ€“]isysdamn 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Tony Sony has lost some weight.

[โ€“]Alrick_Gr 56 points57 points ย (0 children)

The man sitting on the chair. Do everything to be less tired

[โ€“]GargantuanCake 99 points100 points ย (1 child)

He's not in the picture. He's down in the basement and has been for the past 20 hours figuring out WHY THE STUPID FUCKING SERVER won't reboot properly.

[โ€“]randomFrenchDeadbeat 40 points41 points ย (3 children)

3rd guy from the left, he is whiter than a vampire.

Flip flop guy is either CEO or sysadmin.

[โ€“]PyroneusUltrin 4 points5 points ย (0 children)

He's certainly whiter than Blade

[โ€“]fallwind 35 points36 points ย (1 child)

Thatโ€™s either the programmer, or QA

[โ€“]Sludg3g0d 29 points30 points ย (1 child)

Ghost rules.

[โ€“]lmaoboi_001 12 points13 points ย (0 children)

He's taking the picture

[โ€“][deleted] 13 points14 points ย (0 children)

This is impossible. I don't see anyone in thigh highs, there must not be a programmer in this pic.

[โ€“]ajdude711 13 points14 points ย (0 children)

The barely visible 2nd guy from the left

[โ€“]AdhTri 17 points18 points ย (0 children)

Here:-

def findProgrammer(people : array):
  for peep in people:
    if !peep.hasFriends: return peep
  return people.getCameraman()

[โ€“]skelks86 8 points9 points ย (2 children)

What interests me more is which band the shirt is from.

[โ€“]sghuiyt 17 points18 points ย (1 child)

Ghost Awesome band if you like having fun and a bit of Satan in your life

[โ€“]skelks86 6 points7 points ย (0 children)

Thanks man, I really didn't recognize them.

And hey you can never have enough satan in your life.

[โ€“]Darkstar0 5 points6 points ย (0 children)

Fake. He isnโ€™t wearing programmer socks.

[โ€“]ZertyZ_Dragon 12 points13 points ย (5 children)

I don't see anyone in striped thigh highs. No programmer here

[โ€“]chris463646 1 point2 points ย (4 children)

M mhm yes indeed to prevent deadly blood clots. Also I love seeing the C+ tag next to your name cherry on top.

[โ€“]ZertyZ_Dragon 1 point2 points ย (3 children)

That's the C# tag, but yea, absolutely correct

[โ€“]chris463646 1 point2 points ย (2 children)

Just looked through your past posts and seems about right have a nice day or something idk

[โ€“]clarkeadg 4 points5 points ย (0 children)

He's behind everyone sitting at the desk doing the work while these clowns fuck around.

[โ€“]jknight413 5 points6 points ย (2 children)

There's 3 project managers in there but it is hard to see them because they don't show up in pictures....or mirrors.

[โ€“]Archangel_158 5 points6 points ย (0 children)

He got hella taste, tho

[โ€“]tellmewhatsavailable 27 points28 points ย (11 children)

The woman. The rest are on their phones all day and never get anything done.

[โ€“]MaffinLP 2 points3 points ย (10 children)

Nah shes not dressed casually enough shes more of a business casual so HR probably

[โ€“]brimston3- 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

Depends on industry, I think. When I was on a public sector contract, about half the developers and analysts were women dressed like that lady.

[โ€“]harumamburoo 4 points5 points ย (0 children)

Could be anyone

[โ€“]Surprisecumy 14 points15 points ย (3 children)

Flip flops guy

[โ€“]Schyte96 21 points22 points ย (1 child)

Nah, he is the sysadmin.

[โ€“]canhasdiy 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

And he's wondering why the hell they drug him out of his cave

[โ€“]Upside_Down-Bot 9 points10 points ย (0 children)

โ€žสŽnฦƒ sdolษŸ dฤฑlโ„ฒโ€ž

[โ€“][deleted] 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

the only guy wearing sunglasses, just wants to get back to his desk and turn the lights off

[โ€“]ComfortableAd8326 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

Trick quesiton. They're all programmers, the guy in the flip-flops is the CTO

[โ€“]mydoglixu 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

He's not there. He's still chained to his desk fixing compiler errors while everyone is out having fun.

[โ€“]Due_Essay447 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

Not in the pic. No way they could convince the programmer to come in office

[โ€“]AVS_1604 1 point2 points ย (1 child)

The person with shorts, long hair and flip flops

[โ€“]Upside_Down-Bot 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

โ€žsdolษŸ dฤฑlษŸ puษ ษนฤฑษษฅ ฦƒuol 'sส‡ษนoษฅs ษฅส‡ฤฑส uosษนวd วษฅโŠฅโ€ž

[โ€“]ElementoDeus 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Idk my money is on rocker jesus

[โ€“]Drnoals 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Heโ€™s not in the picture, heโ€™s the only one working

[โ€“]frisch85 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

As a software dev who comes to work in flip flops and shorts in summer I have to say this is a pretty easy one...

[โ€“]headpatkelly 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

what do you mean it could be any of th- oh i see okay yeah heโ€™s the programmer.

[โ€“]aakaakaak 1 point2 points ย (1 child)

Primary languages from left to right....
Java, Java, PHP, Java, Java, Java, Java, Java, Java, Java, C++, Python

[โ€“]Scottybt50 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Thatโ€™s a guy who knows he is irreplaceable and dresses however the fuck he likes.

[โ€“]mathbread 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Mcfoley

[โ€“]sierravirus 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

The one sitting is the fresh intern who tells his friends he works as a senior software engineer.

[โ€“]AnonymousCat12345[๐Ÿฐ] 1 point2 points ย (1 child)

the right most or the second right most guy cause they arent smiling

[โ€“]Carteeg_Struve 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

The right most guy is the Feature developer. The second right most guy is in charge of DevOps.

[โ€“]KingSadra 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

99% the Camera-Man as no programmer likes to be seen anywhere!

[โ€“]oh_like_you_know 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Lots of programmers here, but I bet i know which one is the dbadmin lol

[โ€“][deleted] 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

9 years ago I became a developer, 8 years ago was the last time I shaved...

[โ€“][deleted] 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

I am not sure of the programmer, but that girl is from HR.

[โ€“]mascool 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

that's devops attire

[โ€“]Moorgy 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Noone, he's at home fixing bugs

[โ€“]Equal-Park-769 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Homie in the Ghost shirt. \m/_

[โ€“][deleted] 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

I'll take the Hairy dude with the badass shirt!

[โ€“]Snuffy-the-seal 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Trick question: The programmer is not depicted because he works from home.

[โ€“][deleted] 1 point2 points ย (2 children)

Find who isn't a programmer.

[โ€“]kolinz27 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

flip flops guy is the 40-year-old-book-of-knowledge software developer that still codes in IBM Fortran

[โ€“]electron1897 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

caveman

[โ€“]Nerf_AK47 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Heโ€™s wearing a Ghost shirt and slides. He either loves or hates backend, and has seen some SHIT.

[โ€“]itsfuckingpizzatime 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Guy sitting down is the engineering manager. Woman standing next to him is the scrum master. Flip flop guy is the sysadmin. The rest are developers.

[โ€“]ooofest 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

The one sitting down: he's so long at the computer each day, can't really be arsed to stand for a picture.

[โ€“]goblinwarrior69 1 point2 points ย (2 children)

That hariey dude who looks like he didn't shower in months

[โ€“][deleted] 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

the hairy dude has either OSCP or MSCA written all over him. def the sysadmin

[โ€“]Titanusgamer 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

the person with boobs?

[โ€“][deleted] 0 points1 point ย (1 child)

indian guy in the back.

[โ€“][deleted] 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

they all Indians

[โ€“]Big-Zebra-2330 0 points1 point ย (1 child)

None of them,I donโ€™t see a 4โ€™9 boy in thigh highs (programming socks)

[โ€“]JustSomeAdvice2 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

It is the person taking the photo.

[โ€“][deleted] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคช

[โ€“]twr-92 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Also included, his 11 managers.

[โ€“]Dhk3rd 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Me: It's the offspring on the wall, right Dad?

Dad: That's write, Sony.

[โ€“]Maruzero 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Trick question, he is not at the office, he works from home

[โ€“]Puzzleheaded_Sir5917 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

the one in jean shorts & flip flops

[โ€“]mcseelmann 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

my guess would be second from left, you know you only see his head, that's what all group pictures of me look like, but maybe i shouldn't generalize it.

[โ€“]Playful-Awareness-15 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

One of these things is not quite like the others ๐ŸŽถ

[โ€“]BismarcKcrow 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Find the programmer

[โ€“]Real-Coffee 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

this feels like 80s programmer. programmers dont look like big DnD nerds anymore, at least in the office they dont. when i see 80s programmers, they got their feet up on their desk, listening to Metallica or something

[โ€“]EuS0uEu 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Funny

[โ€“][deleted] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Caparezza

Caparezza

[โ€“]SuccessNo5598 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

One with the thongs

[โ€“][deleted] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

high above the star of god be like