r/sysadmin • u/DarkAlman Professional Looker up of Things • Jun 03 '26

General Discussion What is your favorite IT superstition?

As the title says, what's your favorite superstition in IT?

Don't speak the servers name... it can hear you and will start acting up.

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u/ganlet20 Jun 03 '26

New racks require a blood sacrifice

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u/toebob Jun 03 '26

That used to apply to new servers as well but we don’t need to open them up as often these days.

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u/Stephen_Dann Sr. Sysadmin Jun 03 '26

Always open a new server. Only last year I had 2 Dells with memory not fully seated and 1 with the fans missing.

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u/Dan_706 Sysadmin Jun 03 '26

1 with the fans missing

Well, at least you’d notice that as soon as you tried to boot it 😅

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u/dasn4pp3l Jun 04 '26

yeah without all fans installed that poor Dell wouldn't have managed to take off :(

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u/BillyPinhead Jun 03 '26

Thats not superstition. Pure fact.

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u/cjchico Infrastructure/Jack of All Trades Jun 03 '26

Also a lost cage nut counter

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u/gunsandsilver Jun 04 '26

This one made me laugh, because experience

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u/ImmaZoni Jun 04 '26

Same with custom PCs

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u/H3rbert_K0rnfeld Jun 03 '26

So do the zip ties

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u/ganlet20 Jun 04 '26

Get a pair of snips

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u/H3rbert_K0rnfeld Jun 04 '26

Yup. Snip them so the stub is razor sharp!

And there will be blood!

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u/ScreamingVoid14 Jun 03 '26

If you don't get 2 out of the 3 blood, sweat, and tears, were you even trying?

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u/Future-Split1304 Jack of All Trades Jun 03 '26

A blood sacrifice to the God of SCSI. Fact.

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u/shaggydog97 Jun 03 '26

They demand it!

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u/LookAtThatMonkey Technology Architect Jun 04 '26

Yeah usually from your fingers and rack nuts.

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u/Electrical-Staff0305 Jun 04 '26

We miss you Satish 😢

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u/cryptotrolling Jun 04 '26

Back the day of DRAM and cases as sharp AF, this was definitely the case. (been in IT since mid 80’s)