Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

Re:Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never ha... by epolanski on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:35PM (#39475361)

There's a famous green text on 4chan, where a user tells he got a sysadmin job which was so boring he started crashing stuff left and right and blocking an entire office even for entire days.

By the end of the day he would plug back something and come out the "servers room" saying he fixed that and get everybody's praise. Even got him two raises in the span of 18 months.

That's how crazy it is.

I know a variation of this sort of story, where a good sysadmin/DevOps team was halved and then the problems started. The company didn't have those issues exactly because they had a good surplus of eyes to handle everything.

They realized only later the mistake.

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Re:Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never ha... by watwut on Friday February 23, 2024 @09:26AM (#39480930)

I do not think you can trust everything you find on 4chan. Yes, dysfunctional companies exists. No, someone writing something on 4chan does not imply it ever happened.

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Re:Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never ha... by epolanski on Friday February 23, 2024 @10:08AM (#39481443)

Which is why I stated I've read about that on 4chan and not taken is as a truth.

That being I highly believe that stuff like this has and is happening right now.

I've worked in consultancy enough to know that many job's securities revolve around solving specific issues, and if the issues don't exist job security gets lower.

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Re:Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never ha... by wiseowise on Friday February 23, 2024 @09:47AM (#39481169)

> No, someone writing something on 4chan does not imply it ever happened.

Neither does it imply that it never happened.

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Re:Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never ha... by watwut on Friday February 23, 2024 @10:19AM (#39481616)

You cant use it as an argument, just like you cant use a fiction book as an argument.

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Re:Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never ha... by ziddoap on Friday February 23, 2024 @10:54AM (#39482141)

Parent post didn't cite it in an argument.

They shared a story.

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Re:Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never ha... by watwut on Saturday February 24, 2024 @06:41AM (#39490848)

Very likely fictional story which they tried to pass as a thing that happened.

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Re:Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never ha... by grozmovoi on Friday February 23, 2024 @01:06PM (#39484046)

what about someone claiming it was written on 4chan, but it was actually made up for hn. smh can't trust anyone

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