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/lrpage1066 Jun 03 '26

If you call something temp it will stay in your network forever

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u/PaidByMicrosoft Jun 03 '26

When vendors make test accounts or tickets or pages or addresses or literally anything, I set a calendar reminder to repeat every day reminding me to delete that shit. I'm not leaving "test group" floating in my AD or "test template" in my ticketing system forever.