Comment Re:You're the admin? Act like one. (Score 1) 602
This comment amuses me greatly.
Either you haven't actually worked as an admin, or you have been lucky enough to find the perfect bosses up until now.
The first line starts it off. If you've been given responsibility....given the rights to stop whatever you see fit.
Heh. Police have been given the responsibility to prevent crime. Do they have the right to stop whatever they see fit? Nah.
Sysadmins are given the responsibility of making the network function as the users need it to function. They have been given the right to be paged when it breaks, and the right to lots of coffee. In an ideal world, yeah, you have full rights. You do what you want. In the real world, you do what you can.
And you _always_ need to be backed up by management, for the simple fact that they manage you. If you're not backed up, then they will, at the very least, put you under a lot of pressure, and at the worst, simply fire you for causing more work for them (You pissed off teachers. Teachers are bitching. Lots of them. Easiest fix: Explain to all the profs why they should be happy, or fire the admin in a market full of out of work admins? You can guess which they'll usually pick).
This post is a nice theory. I would love if the world was like this.
Tisn't.
Either you haven't actually worked as an admin, or you have been lucky enough to find the perfect bosses up until now.
The first line starts it off. If you've been given responsibility....given the rights to stop whatever you see fit.
Heh. Police have been given the responsibility to prevent crime. Do they have the right to stop whatever they see fit? Nah.
Sysadmins are given the responsibility of making the network function as the users need it to function. They have been given the right to be paged when it breaks, and the right to lots of coffee. In an ideal world, yeah, you have full rights. You do what you want. In the real world, you do what you can.
And you _always_ need to be backed up by management, for the simple fact that they manage you. If you're not backed up, then they will, at the very least, put you under a lot of pressure, and at the worst, simply fire you for causing more work for them (You pissed off teachers. Teachers are bitching. Lots of them. Easiest fix: Explain to all the profs why they should be happy, or fire the admin in a market full of out of work admins? You can guess which they'll usually pick).
This post is a nice theory. I would love if the world was like this.
Tisn't.
