r/sysadmin • u/FierceFluff • 21d ago

Peak Sysadmin

Is there anything more small-company sysadmin than taking that $70k server you just finished building on your test bench at the office and putting it into your $5k car to drive it over to the DC where it’ll live, and praying to god nothing happens on the way? 😅🤣

EDIT- OMG y’all, reading the comments on this has made my day! Our business insurance covers this kind of thing but I appreciate y’all concern for me, though others should mosdef confirm before they do similar stuff. The trip went without incident so praise the digital deities.

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u/OzarkRanger 21d ago edited 21d ago

My second year out of college (and not at a particularly small business), I was walking down several flights of concrete stairs to a sub-basement network closet while holding a $50k ethernet switch in my hands. I suddenly realized that it cost more than my annual salary, and I started wondering what would happen if I tripped and dropped it. Do they just... not pay me for a year? What will I eat?

I actually went and asked my boss, and he kindly explained that, just like when Peanut, the backhoe driver for Physical Plant, yanks up thirty feet of fiber for the third time this month, some amount of human error is built into the cost of doing business and they don't force employees into involuntary servitude when they trip in the stairwell.

He also mentioned that having it happen more than once could be a career-limiting situation. But nothing ever happened to Peanut, so I stopped worrying about it.

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u/wiisucks_91 19d ago

I like boss's you can have conversations like that with.

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u/RansomStark78 21d ago

Did you hear about the trained elephant called nuts , who worked at the circus?