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Are Sysadmins Really that Bad?

Posted by Cliff on from the is-there-a-b0fh-near-you dept.

tgbrittai asks: "According to Paul Boutin they are merely an obstacle to be manipulated or outmaneuvered. According to Steve Wozniak they are pimps. I've known my share of good and bad sysadmins, programmers and every other professional role out there, and I have to wonder: are sysadmins really THAT bad?" Most times sys-admins are overworked and underpaid and have to deal with users who take advantage of their local IT person, tasking them to fix systems that they callously break. Others are truly worth the name "Bastard Operators from Hell". How would you rate your sys-admin and what things did you have to do to make things run smoothly (or not)?

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  1. Are you trying to get us in trouble? by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    Are you trying to get us in trouble?! It's a damn good thing I'm a subscriber, I managed to block slashdot in our squid cache and drop it in a dns blackhole just before this story went live.

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    1. Re:Are you trying to get us in trouble? by niceone · · Score: 5, Funny

      Are you trying to get us in trouble?! It's a damn good thing I'm a subscriber, I managed to block slashdot in our squid cache and drop it in a dns blackhole just before this story went live.
      You must be one of the good sysadmins. The bad sysadmins have just been yanking the cables out of the back of the routers.
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  2. Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    End of Thread.

  3. Re:Boutin has a good idea.... by wild_berry · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks for this enlightening post. You could have not done it, and I'd not have replied and wasted more of my day. But it was a favour to the entire Slashdot community. Cheers!

  4. My SysAdmin is my Boss by paladinwannabe2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    And he is the best Boss ever. He even reads /., which should demonstrate how cool he is. He certainly wouldn't do anything bad, like access my computer, log on to Slashdot, post an article telling the world how awesome he is, and then give me a warning to secure my computer (and change my /. password).

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  5. This is the operations crew by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're watching you and we also happen to know that a 3 phase 415V busbar runs dreadfully close to the RJ11 cable which terminates at your office desk telephone. I also recall this cable being reported as damaged (stripped bare by *accidental* friction). However the repair job is in our very long backlog queue at the moment, just after "Halon release trigger malfunctioning in Lockejaw's office".

    Please call us if you have any further queries on what we do down here in the basement.