Why Your Sysadmin Hates You

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @07:55PM 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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Re:Which is the most counterproductive act of all. by JDG1980 · 2013-06-20 01:44 · Score: 0, Troll

Watch when we spend six hours fixing a machine somebody botched horribly because we told them to push button A then button B then button C, but they pushed button B then button A then button C. For the third time.
That's not the fault of the end user, but of whoever designed the system (which I realize may not be you). Don't design a software or hardware package that's so easy to inadvertently break!