The Bastard Operator From Hell (1999)
I know that it's parody, but I think the whole sysadmin culture is incredibly toxic and glorifies toxicity.<p>I've never met more socially inept yet condescending people in computer science. The whole "loser", "not my job", "automating your job away thing" totally clashes with the real-world requirements that the profession entails.<p>Unless you work at google in a datacenter in the arctic you'll have to help people, and you'll have to do it over and over and over again, because frankly most sysadmins don'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 "losers" won'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>/rant