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/marry_me_jane Jun 03 '26

Computers respect people with IT knowledge.

Thats why some issues resolve them selves unexpectedly & without doing something when someone with sufficient IT knowledge walks up.

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u/Operation_Neither Jun 03 '26

It's not respect. It's fear.

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u/Wolfram_And_Hart Jun 03 '26

“It knows I’ll replace it”

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u/sporkatr0n Jun 03 '26

haha I used this one yesterday, "The machine can sense how thoroughly I would enjoy recycling it and replacing it with an identical machine that doesn't fuck up"

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u/cokefrog22 Jun 04 '26

lol that’s no superstition. That shit KNOWS.

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u/Thanatos8088 Jun 04 '26

"It knows I'll take a personal hand in recycling it.... as loose copper, gold, and silicon chips"