Apr

Confessions of a System Administrator

Rai

Career, confession, system administrator, technical support

My IT career consists of five years of experience. Two of which are spent as a Technical Support and the rest as a Linux System Administrator. I have a fair share of various experiences both from inanimate objects such as printers, monitors, cpu’s, even tables and chairs but the most hilarious ones are from breathing and thinking creatures known as ‘human’.

So those who have no idea what being a System Administrator is like, I would like to share a few of my secrets to you.

10. Sometimes I need silence while I work so please turn down your speaker volume because I do not need to hear every ding and beep your computer makes.

9. I get tired from sitting. Even if I am just sitting on my pretty ass for the whole freaking day, it does not mean I have an easy life.

8. Computers do not always work the way I want them to. You have to understand that I do not have special powers that allows me to talk to computers. Hardware components fail and there is nothing I can do but to replace it.

7. When I ask you what you did that messed up your computer, please don’t say nothing. It is obvious that you did something that threw everything in chaos and the least thing you can do to make me less frustrated is to be honest.

6. Working the night shift is not my idea of a night life.

5. Working during my day off is not my idea of a rest day.

4. When you wake me up in the middle of the night (or day) and I say that it is OK, I am lying. It is never OK to wake someone up whatever work related reason may be.

3. I am not a super hero. I cannot handle five simultaneous requests at the same time so please bear with me if I am not able to answer your IM messages within 3 seconds after you hit the enter key.

2. I work 12 hours a day so I will appreciate it if you will let me take my break in peace. That includes restroom breaks.

1. Yes, I can see your emails, I know which sites you are browsing and I can block your access anytime I want. But I don’t do that. I have better things to do than snoop around. But if you piss me off, I have a lot of information in my hands.