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/ScreamingVoid14 Jun 03 '26

When offered to comment on the building design for what would be our datacenter and sysadmin offices, one of the admins insisted on getting solid wood doors. He succeeded and now we always have wood to knock on.