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Why Your Sysadmin Hates You

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-wouldn't-like-me-when-I'm-angry dept.

jfruh writes "We've learned many lessons in the fallout from Edward Snowden's whistleblowing and flight to Hong Kong, but here's an important one: Never make your sysadmin mad. Even if your organization isn't running a secret, civil-rights violating surveillance program, you're probably managing to annoy your admins in a number of more pedestrian ways that might still have blowback for you. Learn to stay on their good side by going along with their reasonable requests and being specific with your complaints."

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  1. So... by DarkRat · · Score: 5, Funny

    So... it has come to this...

    1. Re: So... by jefe7777 · · Score: 5, Funny

      manager: "Sysadmins hate us for our freedoms!"

      sysadmin: "I'm standing right here John."

      manager: "The global caliphate of sysadmins threaten our children!"

      sysadmin: "I'm still standing right here John."

      manager: "Sysadmins will kill all our children."

      (sysadmin pulls out cell phone, and initiates an scp of a transaction dump, showing all the embezzlement, hookers and blow, said manager has been prodigiously enjoying.)

  2. Re:Not related at all by Intropy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nu-uh. It says it right there in the summary. Snowden leaked information about PRISM because "5. You make urgent, last-minute requests." It had nothing whatsoever to do with having evidence of a massive, illegal, covert surveillance operation being conducted against the American people by its own government.