When things go right: “WHAT ARE WE PAYING YOU FOR?!?”
When things go wrong: “WHAT ARE WE PAYING YOU FOR?!?”
The secret to a healthy career in IT is to let things break just a little every once in a while. Nothing so bad as to cause serious problems. But just enough to remind people that you exist and their world would come crumbling down without you.
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Big mood. It is fucking exhausting explaining basic tech concepts to stakeholders over and over.
If you’re ignoring all the risk factors, got no contingency plans or measurements against projected time and budget you have delivered everything on time and budget by luck.
If you already have those, those meetings should absolutely be a 30 min weekend meeting to check on status and what else you may need to keep delivering.
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Sorry, that was weekly. Weekend can fuck off if you’re on schedule.
Where I’m from we call that Laissez-faire IT
Especially if its a system that you have told management needs to be replaced but they aren’t interested in spending the money…
And also install Adobe reader.
Would be a fun series to watch, wizards trying to run a functioning castle under a king who doesn’t understand the importance of anything magical.
Well, fun for me. Might be some high blood pressure and early heart attacks for IT folks who have to live it.
BBC series Merlin was a little like this. King Uther hated magic, Prince Arthur was kinda against it because he was told it was dangerous, but didn’t exactly hate it himself. Meanwhile Merlin took a job as a servant, doing magic-y things to protect him. Wasn’t a great series (writing), but it had enjoyable aspects.
I mean, it got 5 full seasons. It wasn’t terrible by any means.
Having a lot of seasons means it was popular enough to warrant them. Not that it’s quality. One would hope they correlate but IDK how well it actually does. You’ve got plenty of people who say the Big Bang Theory is shit and it ran for 11 seasons. As someone who watched it I’d say it was no better than average.
I say this as someone who knows little more about this show other than it exists.
“A dragon has never attacked the castle. Why do we even have a wizard?”
“A dragon is attacking the castle. Why do we even have a wizard?”
I’d say that’s a day in the life of a sysadmin, no?
When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.
Damn you, the photo didn’t load and I thought I’d be the first one. Time to start my own comment chain, with blackjack and hookers.
Same thing with why do I need to pay someone to do maintenance my car, kitchen, AC, whatever works perfectly well.
Also why should we pay developers to do stuff like dependency upgrades and other maintenance or software just runs™
In 2017, I jumped ship to a new job as they were transitioning to cloud server everything. The genius CTO (who was the owners wife) pushed for it, quoting they can save a lot of money.
Then she fired half the IT staff.
Two years later and a few major security hacks/ransomware events, they had to hire even more IT folks to unfuck their cloud setup.
I had something like this happen at a corp I once worked at. The CTO said they were going to outsource their entire datacenter and support staff to India.
I literally laughed in his face and obviously, got fired (always have 6-8 months of salary as an emergency fund, ahem-).
I won’t name the company but when half the Internet went down and a few major services? Yeah, it was that asshat driving and running between the datacenters realizing people in Bangladesh can’t do shit for you physically.
It’s like that graph: “Say we want to fuck around at a level 8, we follow this axis, and we’re going to find out at around a level 7 or 8”
I visited a company that outsourced its IT to India. We were delayed 24 hours because the guy who could whitelist our computer on their network was asleep. It was the middle of the night where he lived.
Digital karma.
That’s a common reporting problem, there have been no “successful” attacks, you show value/work by making sure to note all the unsuccessful ones.
Prints a 10m scroll daily containing automated probes and attacks
Unironically it might work. Have a filing cabinet with all the attacks that you can point too.
Weekly report that says XXXX attempted/failed attacks of X type, of y type, etc. and the ability to produce the 70m scroll and generally talk about the stuff on request.
MFs don’t appreciate proper wizardry anymore 😤
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Manga: “Because I, the True Saint, Was Banished, That Country Is Done For!”
