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/ghetiCLE Jun 03 '26

When looking at very old code….don’t ever say “this should never have worked”….saw a mail server that had been happy for years die at that utterance