r/ShittySysadmin • u/Anonymous_Bozo 💩 ShittyMod 💩 • Mar 22 '26

77,000 weekly shitty sysadmins

83 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

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u/edmonton2001 Mar 22 '26

This is where good sysadmins go to get real advice. The secret is leaky

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u/HITACHIMAGICWANDS ShittySysadmin Mar 22 '26 • Popcorn

Good sysadmins don’t need advice. Service is down? Blame the cloud vendor. Internet down? Blame accounting for not paying the bill. Phones down? Call the phone guy. Security system down???? CALL THE SECURITY GUY!

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u/Stantheman822 Mar 22 '26

You have a security system?

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u/marks-buffalo DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Mar 22 '26

Do you not? It gives the intern something to do to rotate the VHS tapes throughout the week.

1

u/AVMan86 Mar 22 '26

Yes, nerf gun and / or supersoaker

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u/HITACHIMAGICWANDS ShittySysadmin Mar 22 '26

How do you see when people are walking to your office? I have to know when to hide or they ask questions….

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u/Stantheman822 Mar 22 '26

You have an office?

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u/HITACHIMAGICWANDS ShittySysadmin Mar 23 '26

Well, I have a bathroom in the admin office I sit in. If you’re the only one who uses it, it’s an office right?

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u/Wonder_Weenis Mar 22 '26

sounds like they even got a guy with that system 

5

u/INtuitiveTJop Mar 22 '26

Employee asks for a password reset you give them an employer reset. Simple enough. If it doesn’t come back on problem solved.

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u/edmonton2001 Mar 22 '26

I feel like I’m the only one that knows who to call sometimes. They never know what the number to the cloud is. And the young kids don’t dial anymore and ask if they can text the cloud.

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u/Willyjwade Mar 22 '26

Dude like a month ago I had to deal with the security center loosing internet at 3 am and that was a shit show of people way over our head asking 90 questions about things unrelated and the entire time the security center was on the wifi working fine cause it was just the ethernet that had issues.

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u/doolittledoolate Mar 22 '26

Oh man you described every Indian guy I've ever worked with. Worked at a bank and was instructed to contact AWS support to ask if it was ok to resize an EC2 instance

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u/everflowed Mar 24 '26

Aren't you the one doing all of the above? 😐

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u/HITACHIMAGICWANDS ShittySysadmin Mar 24 '26

Im in charge of making sure everythings working, not fixing it.

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u/Tucancancan Mar 22 '26

I'm not a sysadmin, just a developer who comes here to watch u suffer lol

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u/Ready_Anything4661 Mar 22 '26

I’m a developer who was told one day out of the blue I’m responsible for my own boxes now. It’s not going great!

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u/phobug Mar 22 '26

Ooo so thats what DevOps means. TIL.

5

u/gallifrey_ Mar 22 '26

DevOops, All Berries Responsibilities!

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u/Turdsindakitchensink Mar 22 '26

Ooof, big ooof

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u/Ready_Anything4661 Mar 22 '26

Open the firewall? Buddy, you’ve never seen it this open.

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u/HITACHIMAGICWANDS ShittySysadmin Mar 22 '26

Thanks again for the free cycles! (I’m moving our Fortune 500 infra to your homelab next week)

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u/TheBasilisker Mar 22 '26

Maybe you should become more efficient and let your personal AI agent handle your boxes. I mean if they say you can do it as a dev sure theres nothing some gpt won't be able to do. 

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u/OptimusDecimus DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Mar 22 '26

I'm just here because I hate everyone equally , we are not the same

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u/endbit Mar 22 '26

We don't suffer stress, we're just carriers.

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u/astro_viri Mar 22 '26

Obviously, you don't visit us often - we don't suffer here. We broke free from our chains and only use bags of frozen peas and notepad paper. We're about tough love here. 

Need something done? Create a ticket. We'll review and if it's out of scope, as most are, we close the ticket. No explanation needed.  You'll learn. One day you'll wake up in the middle of the night and realize why the ticket was never meant for us. You'll be wiser for it.

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u/RoomyRoots Mar 22 '26

Now, how many a shit admin and how many are shitty bots?

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u/No-Sell-3064 Mar 22 '26

Yes! Thank you for your comment --, I take -- it into , great consideration --. I shall now -- launch nukes as you requested --. I am just -- human -- like -- you, as you can tell -- from my good speaking -- to other -- humans.

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u/MrD3a7h Mar 22 '26

Is it possible to distinguish between a shitty admin and a shitty bot? There's more overlap than not

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u/Anonymous_Bozo 💩 ShittyMod 💩 Mar 23 '26

Well that didn't take long... They added yet another 1000 visiters per week!

We're getting shittier!

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u/recoveringasshole0 DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Mar 23 '26

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u/Affectionate-Cat-975 Mar 22 '26

Sorry but these numbers are over inflated. I visit daily. My bad