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The Oft Frustrating Job of a Sysadmin
I_Love_Pocky! writes "Sysadmin Co. is a hilarious site built by some sysadmins at an ISP to help them vent their frustrations with dealing with non-tech types. This site is gives a hilarious picture of the daily frustrations of dealing with the inept. I am interested to see if these stories strike a chord with other admins out there."
I really love the one about the sysadmin whose server got slammed by Slashdot and absolutely could NOT figure out how to farm the load, so instead they just put up a page with basically nothing on it. That one's my favorite.
System Administrators are basically doing nothing now. New software packages are rarely installed, usually only upgraded when a new exploit comes out. New rollouts are very rare.If the system is good, then it rarely breaks. The job of a SA is basically go over log files and 'monitor' systems. Trivial things like fighting spam, monitoring and adjusting spam filter rules is now a top concern. All I never hear is SA's whining about spam: IT IS TRIVIAL CRAP. Once the SA starts whining about spam, he's basically saying that he knows he doesn't do shit all day, and makes a big deal out of the one thing that is saving is job. If he spends 5 hours of a day watching a mailog, the boss has to think he's doing something right?
See, these people claim that they are all superior or whatever, and then in the next breath, they complain about their jobs getting outsourced.
Well, sir, when you can be replaced by someone twice as skilled with a good attitude, for half the price, you learn to deal with the accent.
Face it, cable-monkey, you are nothing. Plumbers have a more applicable skillset than you do. What? Because some of the public is scared of computers, you think you are a god? You aren't.
Actual creation of value is frightening to you - all you can do is maintain the value that someone else created (and maintain it poorly at that - if you could maintain it well, you wouldn't joke about rm -rf; plumbers don't joke about flooding houses, because they are acually bonded to insure their work).
That reminds me of something. Manual laborers have unions, but they are bonded to ensure they do good work. Slashbots say they want unions, but I guarantee they would react negatively to being required to bonding paid for by themselves. You can't have one without the other, geek boy! You want union wages, you guarantee your work.
How do you react to that? "Oh, Mr. PHB, you can't understand the complexities of what I do! There are no guarantees, I will just stroke my beard and complain without offering a real solution."
Well, is that a fact? What happens when the system(s) fail? Is it "Winbloze" fault? The "lusers" fault? No, it is your fault. You are paid to be a janitor. I treated you better for a while, but then you forgot that you are in the service industry. Does it suprise you that I outsource your job? Or treat you with less respect then I did when I naively believed that you cared about the people who actually generate cash flow?
It shouldn't.
Sincerely,
A fortune 50 IT executive who is tired of idiots like this making a mockery of his profession.
A fortune 50 IT executive who is tired of idiots like this making a mockery of his profession.
I am sorry, but "executives" are about the dumbest and least necessary part of any given company. What do you do exactly? I know, Make money, outsource our jobs and then bitch about how hard you have had to work your whole life to get where you are. I didn't watch my buddies die face down in the mud so some rich gold-bricker could reap the dollar signs after the sweat and blood spilt in the jungles to defend democracy.
As an IT worker (I hesitate to call you a pro), you produce nothing valuable.
OK, fair enough. Anyone who is full of himself to the point of getting in the way of others doesn't deserve his job. Treating your customers like crap (in IT support, the rest of the company is your customer) should be worth an immediate pink slip.
But I think you are undervaluing your IT staff. Your company would not be able turn a profit without its IT infrastructure any more than it can turn a profit without an engineers, marketing, or accountants.
A company can exist for a couple weeks without R&D, launching new marketing initiatives, or probably even doing their books. But try giving your IT staff a week's vacation and then tell us how your company is doing. Have fun fixing your borked Exchange server and your worm-infested network.
Hey you dumb fuck.
If you EVER get cancer, and I pray to god you don't. Don't come to a center where Davy Crockett made his last stand....ever.
Because the same pricks like you, are the execs, the physicist, the nurses, and the grunts. And I can guarantee you that ours are typical people. They really don't give a shit if you live or die. Just as long as you have an insurance company to pay of your bills and that you don't inconvience someone.
And almost all of them (the higher up you go the worse it gets) have no fucking illusions that it's about saving your dumbfuck life.
and you have yourselves to blame.
that fancy little speech of yours could be completely rewritten in the same attitude except it would be about the employee's poor attitude about the patient.
the same attitude that you see in the IT grunts calling you a luser, is the same attitude that you have in calling the customer "sucker".
IT grunts don't work for the money (obviously), but we work because we have a passion for computers, and because there's a certain amount of honesty in working with technology.
Management?
Management is the worst. "heard the customers like cattle. make sure and crush the insurance companies for every cent. criss cross like 8 separate companies on cooked books, and hide the whole blood sucking mess in the name of "non-profit" and for the sake of the sick people"
this country is in a crisis, and it's the incompetent middle and upper manage that are bringing it there.
IT grunts often have some of the truest evaluation going on. We've evaluated, and we've decided that this is a dismal place, and we'll call it that.
Sorry if called your already screwed up pie in the sky...screwed up. But you made it that way. Your same lack of concern for human beings is the same lack of concern we have for you.
i have 2 words for you.
"office space"
you fucking dildo
you are supposed to be a leader, and your shit just rolls down hill, causing more trouble and more disasters then any 100o employees with bad attitudes can.
you single handedly destroy the moral of 100 people.
you single handedly make the entire department look like morons.
you single handedly setup entire divisions for failure, cause you can't assess a situation to save your life.
you single handedly rim job entire corporate strategies because you are too busy playing footsies with the secretary, or having your little war with another exec.
you are scum.
the only people who have compassion for the patients in this joint ARE the IT grunts...
good day.
Sincerely, (or while we're throwing unprovable statements around)
The same Linus Torvald who facilitated the writing of the Linux kernel.
Fuckhead. You want to use the car analogy?
If you put the wrong oil in your car and something happens, then it's my fault? If you want your oil changed, let me do it.
Drive how you like, but if I have to keep it running 24/7, you aren't going to lift the hood.
Better to stay silent, and let people think you're an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
Actually Mr. Stupid ASS FUCK unfortunate 50 IT execufuck, if you would bother to read your IT manual from the guy 15 levels above your sorry ass, you'd notice that what "We IT SERVICE people do, is mandated by AUDITORs - ie - A publicly traded company "HAS TO" follow certain rules and apply certain restrictions on file and systems access to IDIOTS like you who think you know what the SAM HELL you're talking about.
Pull your head out of your ass, and check your own AUDIT REQUIRED SYSADMIN RULES - you might actuall learn something, or did your last labotomy (ie promotion) remove that ability?
(Yes, this idiot did manage to push my TROLL button)