Things You Don’t Want Your Sysadmin To Say1. Uh-oh…2. Oh S***!3. What the heck?!?4. Go get your backup tape. (You DO have a backup tape?)5. That’s SOOOOO bizarre.6. Wow!! Look at this…7. Hey!! The Suns don’t do this.8. Terminated?!?9. What software license?!?10. Well, it’s doing SOMETHING…11. Wow…that seemed fast…12. I got a better job at Lockheed…13. Management says…14. Sorry, the new equipment didn’t get budgeted.15. What do you mean that wasn’t a copy?16. It didn’t do that a minute ago…17. Where’s the GUI on this thing?18. Damn, and I just bought that Coke…19. Where’s the DIR command?20. The drive ate the tape but that’s OK, I brought my screwdriver.21. I cleaned up the root partition and now there’s LOTS of free space.22. What’s this „any“ key I’m supposed to press?23. Do you smell something?24. What’s that grinding sound?25. I have never seen it do THAT before…26. I don’t think it should be doing that…27. I remember the last time I saw it do that…28. You might as well all go home early today…29. My leave starts tomorrow.30. Oops! (said in a quiet, almost surprised voice)31. Hmm, maybe if I do this…32. Why is my „rm -R *“ taking so long?“33. Hmmm, curious…34. Well, MY files were backed up.35. What do you mean you needed that directory?36. What do you mean /home was on that disk? I umounted it!37. Do you really need your home directory to do any work?38. I didn’t think anybody would be doing any work at 2am, so I killed your job.39. Yes, I chowned all the files to belong to pvcs. Is that a problem to you?40. We’re standardizing on AIX.41. Wonder what THIS command does?42. What did you say your (1)user name was…? 😉
