What do you hate about your sysadmin job? -

[UN 474]

Share your stores or things that you hate about your sysadmin job.

Mine, you ask?

1. Printers
2. Printers
3. Printers
4. Fucking printers

 

[RetardedCat]

Imagine unironically wanting to work as a sysadmin

 

[UN 474]

Imagine unironically wanting to work as a sysadmin

If you have an unhealthy love for computers as much as I do.

 

[ES 148]

I'm the sysadmin of my own computer and I can barely handle that, anyone working with multiple computers at once is some kind of techno wizard. How do you screw them together when there's only so many portholes in the back?

 

[UN 474]

I'm the sysadmin of my own computer and I can barely handle that, anyone working with multiple computers at once is some kind of techno wizard. How do you screw them together when there's only so many portholes in the back?

When you finger many men as I do, you gain the wonderful sysadmin powers of the Nile.

 

[WW 635]

I'm the sysadmin of my own computer and I can barely handle that, anyone working with multiple computers at once is some kind of techno wizard. How do you screw them together when there's only so many portholes in the back?

Imagine being a woman and using a computer. I'm typing this on a cardboard box

 

[Niggernerd]

Imagine being a woman and using a computer. I'm typing this on a cardboard box

you can't be a woman. Your joke was funny.

 

[YW 525]

If you unhealthy love computers as much as I do.

I guess you also enjoy pain. How else can you put up with users mangling the software, the hardware, and the data on an hourly basis?

 

[saisegeha]

Why do sysadmins look so dead on the inside and outside?

 

[MAPK phosphatase]

Why do sysadmins look so dead on the inside and outside?

Sysadmin work is like a 130-150 IQ job, and you deal with 90-105 IQ people like me all day. I can imagine how that would metaphorically kill a man.
Also something something 2001 a Space Oddity something something as machines become more human the human becomes more machine, or something deep like that.

 

[betterbullocks]

Not a sysadmin, is it worth considering? Is it feasible to do alongside uni? Not sure what the requirements are either

 

[UN 474]

Sysadmin work is like a 130-150 IQ job, and you deal with 90-105 IQ people like me all day. I can imagine how that would metaphorically kill a man.
Also something something 2001 a Space Oddity something something as machines become more human the human becomes more machine, or something deep like that.

I honestly think anyone could do it. Well, if you finger as many men as I do.

 

[WW 635]

Sysadmin work is like a 130-150 IQ job, and you deal with 90-105 IQ people like me all day. I can imagine how that would metaphorically kill a man.
Also something something 2001 a Space Oddity something something as machines become more human the human becomes more machine, or something deep like that.

If you really have a 130-150 IQ you could get a less shit job

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

For a computer lover becoming a sysadmin is an effective way of making your hobby not a hobby.

 

[Wake me up]

When the users on my quickly growing web forum keep insisting that I like AWOOOOOs, for whatever weird reason.

 

[DidYouJustSayThat]

The main issue is, that nobody is grateful, when shit is running smoothly, but one'll be raked over the coals, when it hits the rotary air impeller. Enjoy long hours fixing crap other people/vendors fuck up, don't be a sucker and work for places, that don't pay overtime - at least not after you have acquired some experience in the field.
Oh and also fuck printers.

 

[UN 474]

The main issue is, that nobody is grateful, when shit is running smoothly, but one'll be raked over the coals, when it hits the rotary air impeller. Enjoy long hours fixing crap other people/vendors fuck up, don't be a sucker and work for places, that don't pay overtime - at least not after you have acquired some experience in the field.
Oh and also fuck printers.

I've had moments when employees would blame me for system downtimes. Funny thing is, they literally don't have a clue when it comes to managing systems.

 

[DidYouJustSayThat]

I've had moments when employees would blame me for system downtimes. Funny thing is, they literally don't have a clue when it comes to managing systems.

I got you fam - http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl
Just refresh the page until you get a suitable excuse.

Got this gem right now:

The cause of the problem is:
Little hamster in running wheel had coronary; waiting for replacement to be Fedexed from Wyoming

 

[AF 802]

Not a sysadmin but I agree with @Daddy Dongle Dinkle. Printers, especially wi-fi printers are a fucking pain, especially my shitty HP at home with doesn't even have drivers that install correctly on newer versions of Windows 10. I have to use Windows' default drivers that don't work properly half the time.

 

[UN 474]

Not a sysadmin but I agree with @Daddy Dongle Dinkle. Printers, especially wi-fi printers are a fucking pain, especially my shitty HP at home with doesn't even have drivers that install correctly on newer versions of Windows 10. I have to use Windows' default drivers that don't work properly half the time.

The whole printer industry is a fucking nightmare. I've had issues with printers refusing to work completely, and the lack of diagnostic information to solve the problem. At work, printers are normally the main problem.

The video below covers it pretty well.