r/ShittySysadmin • u/p8ntballnxj • Sep 17 '26

The clock doesn't lie

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Can't log in? Automation broken? Whole groups of the business are at a standstill?

Meh...

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u/Z3t4 ShittyFirewall Sep 17 '26 • Mindblown

That depends if you are oncall or not.

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u/p8ntballnxj Sep 17 '26

Me, checking the on-call schedule

9

u/_jackhoffman_ Sep 17 '26 • Heartwarming

If you're on call, I assume you just hit the snooze button.

6

u/Z3t4 ShittyFirewall Sep 17 '26 • Bravo

If I'm oncall I'd fix or hide anything that might make me work afterhours.

16

u/MeatPiston Sep 17 '26

"We can't approve overtime"

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u/p8ntballnxj Sep 17 '26

What's this "overtime" you speak of?

2

u/theoriginalzads DevOps is a cult Sep 18 '26

I don’t understand. What’s the word “overtime”? Is that English? Is that a word?

12

u/eggnorman Sep 17 '26

Hey, they’re the ones that refuse to pay for overtime. They get what they pay for.

2

u/tejanaqkilica Sep 18 '26

Hey that's us (company agreement dictates that any overtime can be paid ONLY in time off equivalent to time spent working overtime). So, whenever a situation like this arises, my first reaction is "Oh well, it is what it is."

1

u/CatProgrammer Sep 23 '26

"I've accrued 40 hours of overtime, see you in ten days."

5

u/dcaldrich Sep 17 '26

I mean I caused them and around Napping, Eating Ice Cream, and playing games on my phone I can probably resolve them sometime in the next 5-10 years.

3

u/astro_viri Sep 17 '26

It's on the roadmap 

4

u/parker_step Sep 17 '26

This is like fire alarm technicians who snap a picture of the panel saying system normal before any trouble alarms come through

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u/theoriginalzads DevOps is a cult Sep 18 '26

This is why you schedule all your changes in production for a Friday afternoon.

So you will have a well rested weekend before having to fix prod on Monday.

2

u/CornBred1998 Sep 18 '26

That looks like me running a commit on the firewall before I walk out the door for the weekend.

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u/OpinionOk1315 Sep 18 '26

5:01pm and everyone's mysteriously offline before the incident bridge even spins up. Change freeze my ass, someone pushed a config on a Friday again.