Ah! MEMORIES
I worked for local government and the Elected-official - appointed ‘management’ got consultants in to review the site’s organisation. Among the recommendations implemented: Systems support staff (as in server, network, PC and mainframe OS installation and maintenance staff) were not to be allowed access to the security management facility - The new person hired did not have experience with the sites security and systems management software And performance criteria changed from black marks for system problems to gold marks for fixing problems within the set criteria periods. Err – no problems means no chance to fix things – so guess what happened to the systems up-time! And – while ops would previously have been advised that as overnight backups failed – so “please check they are run carefully tonight”, The new “authorised process” is record the failure to backup volume _, and the failure to backup , and … - Each solved within 10 minutes by logging the operations failure and instructions to immediately run the backup. And – each advisory of a problem gets formally entered into the problems system for assignment to a designated support person - No immediate response as the fault has to be recorded and analysed for categorisation and timeslot allocation. - Well – how else will we get appraisals that won’t actually result in loss of performance increases earned in prior years. JimB From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D R Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 6:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Happy SysAdmin day! Today is SysAdmin Day? Boy! I had better 'crash' a server and get it up and going within the hour so I can feel appreciated. Daniel On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 12:22 PM, James Button <[email protected]> wrote: BOFH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Link Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 6:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Happy SysAdmin day! Shut up and fix my printer. On Friday, July 31, 2015, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote: There is a GLARING omission in the list of proper things to do. ----------- Proper observation of SysAdmin Day includes (but is not limited to): * Cake & Ice cream * Pizza * Cards * Gifts * Words of gratitude * Custom t-shirts celebrating the epic greatness of your SysAdmin(s) * Balloons * Streamers * Confetti On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Maglinger, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: http://sysadminday.com/ -Paul -- Daniel Rodriguez [email protected]
