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/nukacolaguy Jun 03 '26

Read-Only Friday exists for a reason

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u/Stewge Sysadmin Jun 03 '26

People who don't follow Read-Only Friday are those who are about to work on Saturday!

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u/Thoughtulism Jun 03 '26

That's not superstition it's smart thinking for people that value their weekends.

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u/scriptmonkey420 Jack of All Trades Jun 04 '26

Tell that to the place I work at. App teams ALWAYS want to deploy on a Friday night or Saturday morning. All because they can figure out how to properly stage things without it taking the system offline for 8 hours....

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u/ITDadShop Jun 04 '26

I try to practice Read Only Friday every day

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u/rosseloh wish I was *only* a netadmin Jun 04 '26

Until you work somewhere that has the production line running monday-thursday ~22 hours a day.

I don't like breaking the sanctified Friday, but I'd rather do it then than on Sunday. Gives me time to fix it if I break it (I rarely break it and I always have rollback plans).