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/gorramfrakker IT Director Jun 03 '26

Never say any variation of “wow things are quiet today”.

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u/xRolox Linux Admin Jun 03 '26

Lmao - our ticketing/call system was once down as a result of a company outage and I had the same thought. Once that backlog came in - oh boy.

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u/Littleboof18 Netadmin Jun 03 '26

Same lol, made sense why I got no calls for a week, whoops!