Another PSA

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right, rule one of sysadmin. If someone asks you for a widget of which you have no spares, but you have a number of instances deployed in production, after you tell them that no, you don't have any spares, follow them out of the building. If they go away thoughtful, they *are* trying to figure out which one of the ones in production they can appropriate without anyone noticing that somethings broken, and they will try it, and they will get it wrong, and while you may or may not get to whack their peepee for having done so, you will nonetheless have to *find which one they took* when someone else's production service breaks.

This also applies when tasks are being doled out, and someone gets stuck with one, but they clearly don't really want to do it and don't quite understand why it needs to be done. Follow them. So that when they drop the ball, you can pick it up on purpose, rather than having someone walk up to you a month later with a deflated ball that they found out in the street, having just been run over by a delivery truck, but that you might want because it has your company's logo on it.

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[trinsf.livejournal.com]

You know, that whacking of peepee's is *ever* involved or even considered is a bad sign...

[toxgunn.livejournal.com]

;)
Reminds me much of a vg5 era VV ranting after finding a thinnet terminator/connector had gone "missing somewhere"...;)

[clarkprice.livejournal.com]

When I was in school, they somehow managed to leave the endpoint of 10base2 out hanging in one of the labs..

wtf were they thinking ? :)

[clarkprice.livejournal.com]

Rule *one* of sysadmin is to get their username dude.

[cos]

This post makes me think of Bob Antia (who has some great stories to tell of both of those, which I wish I remembered in more detail)

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Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Follow them. So that when they drop the ball, you can pick it up on purpose, rather than having someone walk up to you a month later with a deflated ball that they found out in the street, having just been run over by a delivery truck, but that you might want because it has your company's logo on it.

That is hilarious. May I Metaquote?

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Certainly.