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Haha if there's one role I steer clear then it's anything OPs/admin related - no shortage of ass clenching situations where your job/product/the entire company

• sonicanatidae 3y ago
  We mitigate this by being prepared. We keep things running well, with lots of likely needless PM. The problem is, you never know what PM is needless until the need arises. We also usually have plans for getting things up and running again quickly, because revenue stops when the info doesn't flow. But, even with all of that, we still pucker sometimes and develop weird habits. One of mine is not looking at a server booting, after a serious repair with a 50/50 shot of working. Somehow, in my mind, the chances of it working are improved based on whether I'm looking at it or not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I ain't changing anything either. I've had some systems that I managed to literally raise from the dead and they booted, in part, because I wasn't looking at the screen during boot. I will accept no other explanation for the results.