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> Grind administrators against it in production for years Screw you, I quit!
by annoyingnoob 5y ago
> Grind administrators against it in production for years
Screw you, I quit!
- praptak 5y agoThere's a Zen saying: “Like the pebbles in a bag, the monks polish one another.” We could modify this to handle sysadmins too.
- annoyingnoob 5y agoThe only lesson in suffering under your job duties as a sysadmin is "don't do that". There is little glory in polishing production poo, even if you can. You should be showing a better way, not reinforcing bad decisions because you are a superhero.
- throwaway09223 5y agoI would say there's little glory in quietly polishing poo, in smoothing over problems without visibility. I agree it's not good to suffer in silence. However, the political reality in any large company means shit will be shipped on a regular basis. This isn't unique to the dev/sysadmin roles. This happens in every area of business. There's enormous glory to be had in visibly polishing turds - in mitigating well known, well communicated problems. Prevention is very important, yes, but it is not a panacea.