sysadmin work for an public institution or so where people are only bullshitting their jobs.

About half my career and part of my current contract load is to a public organization of one type or another. But I’ve been half and half anyway.

Dotcom is a wasteland of gunners/pluggers and wageslaves, none of them afforded enough time to get anything complete and good. Public orgs with union contracts employ people with a good life balance and the freedom to do a great job about 95% of the time, after the layers of regulations are met.

I found slackers at both types of org: the public slacker is a hapless clod whose tasks all get reassigned and he really doesn’t do much. He’s about 3% of the workforce. The dotcom slacker is a harried guy muddling through something he’s not trained for, with no help since his peers have their own KPIs, hoping like fuck he can get Project Grapefruit done by next Town Hall meeting lest he be voted off the island. Again, 3%.

The public org is great people who’ve done this work effectively their entire career. They’re astoundingly good at it, and are still energized by the work and the educational programmes. Dotcoms have no training and the few people who make it past 2 years are likely PIPped by year 4 because of the “fresh talent” policy

I envy the public org people. I miss my non-work life sometimes.

Same here. We have some privacy stuff, so if course it’s not going into a CLOUD ACT server.

But, we still also inexplicably use teams and outlook. Too bad those didn’t stay down.

As a Glencoe lord I support this.

do learn

I’ve an idea.

Nah. I wouldn’t solve it; I’d resolve it. :-)

Usually a junior will pick up the problem ticket in the morning, and collab with a senior if it’s a non-trivial fix. Soon as the workaround’s in and the incident can close, the overnight nerd is back to bed and the 8 hours timer starts.

Unions and ITIL are the light and the way.

My contract says that I must get 8 hours clear.

If I get a call at 345, and resolve it at 0430, you will NOT see me before 1230. You will pay me from 0800-1700 but you will not see me tomorrow until lunch.

Name the thing that is so important I must work on it in the morning while sleep-impaired.

If someone corrects what you wrote into an English sentence, and you have a problem with people looking out for you, then you’re a dick.

I’d probably go back in a heartbeat.

Remember: once a dick, always a dick. Reddit will not be unshittified, even if it looks that way for very brief moments.

One day I will wake up, realize ‘based’ went the way of ‘tubular’ and probably still not have an objective definition.