Restarting the server because the tarot deck said to is certainly a way better reason than the ones I occasionally see in practice - e.g., "because the uptime w

Restarting the server because the tarot deck said to is certainly a way better reason than the ones I occasionally see in practice - e.g., "because the uptime was unusually high and that seemed suspicious," well did you suspect that it was manually configured and nobody was rebooting it for a reason? That one is an actively bad reason to reboot a server during an outage, at least the tarot deck isn't making decisions contrary to evidence. Also, if you read the article closely, it's not advising you to trust the deck blindly, it's advising you to use it as a way to think about the problem from a new angle. If you're restarting it blindly based on a tarot deck, you're the sort of sysadmin who's ready to restart it blindly based on finding a five-year-old wiki page with a vaguely similar error message on a totally different platform. Should that be a fireable offense? (Maybe! Or at least maybe the company should find you a different role that recognizes that making decisions about production servers is not actually one of your skills.)