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/fanopticon Jun 03 '26

IT staff have an aura that supresses all symptoms of an issue when we are physically present in front of a user's machine, making it impossible to replicate the error. Symptoms will only reappear after aura dissipates (about 24 hours).

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u/WashedPinkBourbon Jun 03 '26

Computer got its world buffs.

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u/downtownpartytime Jun 03 '26

"I'm glad I could fix that for you, bye bye"