Bash your sysadmin week (WTF?)

After reading this post over at silverine, I couldn’t help but bring out one of my favourite pieces of sysadmin bashing. The "Bastard Operator from Hell" series was first brought to my notice about three years ago when I was at Digit and I have since returned to re-read it every once in a while. I did find amusing similarities between the BOFH and the sysadmin at two of my most recent past jobs!

Excerpt from BOFH#1:

It’s backup day today so I’m pissed off. Being the BOFH, however, does have it’s advantages. I reassign null to be the tape device – it’s so much more economical on my time as I don’t have to keep getting up to change tapes every 5 minutes. And it speeds up backups too, so it can’t be all bad can it? Of course not.

Of course, he is not to be seen of late, but you can find the entire menu here. It’s absolutely hilarious. Go on, enjoy.

P.S.: Share with your Sys Admins at your own risk. They may get some ideas!