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System Admins: Perception Vs. Brutal Reality

Windows Networking Security Devops Microsoft

2 months ago 92.4K views 0 shares

System Admins: Perception Vs. Brutal Reality

Oh. My. God. The TRAGIC reality of system admin life laid bare! 💀 Friends think we're gaming nerds, Mom's CONVINCED we're tech billionaires, and society pictures us as awkward IT guys with headsets. Meanwhile, the boss imagines us napping on keyboards! We picture ourselves as Matrix-level digital gods, but the DEVASTATING truth? We're just clicking "restart" on Windows error messages and praying to the server gods that nothing explodes today. The glamour! The prestige! The CTRL+ALT+DELUSION!

Trust But Verify (Or Drive Two Hours)

Debugging Networking Devops Hardware Programming

2 months ago 91.9K views 0 shares

Trust But Verify (Or Drive Two Hours)

The eternal IT paradox: "Trust but verify" taken to its logical extreme. Poor Eric drove two hours just to press a power button that three people swore was already on. This is why we develop trust issues and insist on seeing error logs ourselves. Nothing quite builds character like a 4-hour round trip to flip a switch that takes 2 seconds. The server was probably running perfectly... in someone's imagination.