The Bastard Operator From Hell (1999)
I know that it&#x27;s parody, but I think the whole sysadmin culture is incredibly toxic and glorifies toxicity.<p>I&#x27;ve never met more socially inept yet condescending people in computer science. The whole &quot;loser&quot;, &quot;not my job&quot;, &quot;automating your job away thing&quot; totally clashes with the real-world requirements that the profession entails.<p>Unless you work at google in a datacenter in the arctic you&#x27;ll have to help people, and you&#x27;ll have to do it over and over and over again, because frankly most sysadmins don&#x27;t make the money, the people they support do. Yet, they look down on the people they run the systems for. To them they are just cogs in a machine doing non intellectual work. They see it as an insult that their &quot;losers&quot; won&#x27;t learn and stop to appreciate and marvel at their beautiful systems, ignoring the fact that most ops positions at a non IT company are a lot less stressful, yet much better paid than all other jobs.<p>&#x2F;rant