On 13/06/13 9:03 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 03:02:08PM +1000, Pidgorny, Slav (GEUS) wrote:
And what exactly is the dilemma - to be effective or ineffective, or cheap or not? the dilemma - more of an irony, really - is that a good sysadmin often looks like they're not doing anything, because they're not panicing, and their systems don't fall over all the time.
the irony is that a sysadmin is only noticed when something goes wrong.
if you do your job well so that things don't go wrong, some bean-counter will start to think you're not needed. they won't discover they were wrong until six months or so after you're no longer around to do all the little preventative maintainence things that stop tiny problems from cascasing into gigantic problems. and even then, they won't see the connection. So true, and that's the same for a lot of important jobs - when they're being done well, no one notices, and the job can even get a little "dull". Such is life. :) Certainly not restricted to sysadmin work either.
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