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People would die as X-rays and medical devices stop working. The power and communication grids would go down. Everyone's financial and personal data would be compromised. No one can make any purchases, because credit carding systems stop working. Cash is no longer accepted because no one knows how to do the math to make change anymore. Humanity would be in a stone age in less than 3 days.

IT helps desk.

I'm a night auditor at a hotel.

Good luck getting service in a hotel past 11 now.

Software might actually stop developing new bugs. People will stop getting frustrated with technology, and world peace will happen.

I'm a project manager, so kind of a mixed bag. Some things will go off without a hitch, maybe even faster. Others will fall to pieces from a logistics and budgetary aspect. Loads of toilets will be gold plated and encrusted in diamonds

I am an teacher at a daycare. Short-term, lots of parents will have to drop out of the workforce to take care of their own children. The economic effects of this will be subtle but extensive. I suspect that in the americas this will be ignored, in Europe this will provoke the writing of policies to help parents, and in Asian countries this might just reinforce traditional gender norms very strongly. I dont know how this wouo

I'm physically disabled. So the medical industry would collapse, but it might fix the medical industry too.

I'm an apartment building superintendent, meaning I live in the same building that I manage.

Whether it's a water leak, fire alarm, someone having a medical crisis, or something else, I'm usually called for an emergency of one kind or another at least once every 48 hours. In theory, someone could die if paramedics are delayed by a locked door or the fire department doesn't know which units have elderly/disabled people who need evacuation assistance.

Basically the slow death Twitter has been experiencing, but across all of tech.

I'm just gonna say right away. I'm pretty confident that's true. Way too many weapons guidance systems, radar, communications, and sensors involved.

It sounds very good not to have any Unemployed people, but the more you think about it the more dystopian it gets.

GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Specialist. If you got rid of just the specialists you probably be fine. The techs, analysts, and admins could hold things together. If all of the GIS experts disappeared all together we would probably start getting hungry pretty quick, and the US military would get a lot shittier. basically, anything that relies on a geolocation is kinda screwed. Lots of it has actually been automated so we might be fine for a bit.

Depending on how broad we are talking..

I'm Human Resources. Many would be glad we're gone, but Human Resources are there to do many tasks people take for granted such as setting up benefits (retirement, health, life, etc), to vetting and hiring, and mediating between managers and employees. Often times, these require extensive knowledge on how to navigate labyrinthian laws that sometimes change regularly and less-than-friendly benefit companies.

More specifically, I'm a workers compensation specialist within HR. My job is being a subject matter expert and a liason between the employees and an underfunded, understaffed, stretched to the limits Workers Compensation program that is struggling under the weight of a massive worker population with little in funding being provided to it. I anticipate the needs of the work comp program to try to ease the burden of the workers falling into a denial-appeal cycle.

To be fair.. society would march on without us. There'd be this horrible adjustment period for the workforce where managers who may be industry specialized (Like a manager of nurses isn't really trained to handle most HR functions) have to pick up new skills. And for a while you'll probably see a lot of people not being enrolled, disenrolled, tracked, vetted, etc as people figure it out.

Overall, you'd probably see a lot of unions/angry workers and it would probably hasten a long a massive amount of protests and strikes. Human Resources in the private sector acts like a buffer in some ways. Correcting issues individually before they become systemic.

I'm an industrial mechanic mainly doing cnc machining. The world would grind to a halt in a few days.

About 15 seconds.

I'm in an industry where there are already not enough of us, and it's already showing. It would get worse to say the least

Production planner here. Eventually you will notice that things are done inefficiently, not in a sensible order or timely manner. It's gonna be really annoying but the world won't collapse.

My exact job title? Well, my family is sad, but no one else would notice.

Junior PHP Dev. Not great, not terrible. I don't think awful things would happen, but it'd be hella inconvenient for the professionals and seniors.

The automatically controlled systems in cars will go to the dogs. They're already at the door as it is. I guess we could cycle to work, might be a good thing.