This is actually fairly accurate. The reason you hire a systems administration professional is because you want their services. Those services include advice,

This is actually fairly accurate. The reason you hire a systems administration professional is because you want their services. Those services include advice, task prioritization, debuggings skills and hopefully grace under pressure. When you IGNORE the advice your admin gives you, you are not working as a team, you are being a jerk and disrespectful. Testing code on production is hillariously bad but I see people do it all the time and I shake my head when they get burnt and get all upset. People are not infallable, thats why you test, and when you don't test at all you're playing with fire (downtime).