Comments on: Arrogance of Co-workers

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:01:59 +0000

I think Accountant is way too low. And I’m an accountant!

By: Intyalle

Intyalle — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:45:52 +0000

All administration have a thankless job. *Any* form of admin is never noticed until something goes wrong.

By: Intyalle

Intyalle — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:41:54 +0000

Actually… it probably means that network admins are the ones who *want* to comment the most. Everyone else doesn’t care as much.

Side note, I love my job ^^ Not a network admin, true, but I do work with the computers, making a website specifically. And I get huge amounts of appreciation – and sugar – from my boss.

And before you say that’s a pathetic job as some have, note I’m only 15 still

By: foxofinfinety

foxofinfinety — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:37:09 +0000

I don’t like this I am a system/network admin

By: Swissadmin

Swissadmin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:06:09 +0000

To err is human. To forgive is simply not my policy.
-Root

By: Olziber

Olziber — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:11:01 +0000

my computer never works the way its supposed to :/

By: erebus

erebus — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:15:59 +0000

That’s SO true. D:

By: Dom

Dom — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:45:55 +0000

Amazingly annoyingly true. You also should add that after we fix the problem we don’t get credit for it either.

By: syadmin

syadmin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:50:14 +0000

“I read your email”

nuf said

By: The Mighty Admin

The Mighty Admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:44:16 +0000

We aren’t arrogant, we just hate you.

Toodles!

By: Fridge

Fridge — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:30:20 +0000

NO, You got a cookie for posting on this website.

By: forge

forge — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:44:17 +0000

Our sysadmins get paid ludicrously well. You’re working in the wrong place.

By: forge

forge — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:42:36 +0000

I almost *never* fail to give laudation to the sysadmins when a problem comes up and they fix it in no time with a seeming near-complete lack of effort. But they’re still surly and uncommunicative, and the first to blame me for forwarding a ticket without doing “proper investigation.” I know the problem when I see it, and it’s the same problem as before, and I couldn’t fix it then either – because they won’t give me access to the things necessary to fix it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:30:33 +0000

I think the title should be changed from “Arrogance or Co-Workers” to “Competence of Co-Workers”

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:17:31 +0000

That is the truth… then when they break it, it’s your fault.

By: david davidson

david davidson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:23:59 +0000

we know your aaaaaaaaall passwords

By: Lachlan

Lachlan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:01:58 +0000

We controlz the flow, we controlz the universe.

By: jackie31337

jackie31337 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:52:40 +0000

This is exactly why I have a network admin fetish.

By: EstherDG

EstherDG — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:51:01 +0000

What’s your username again? Oh right. *clickety-click*

By: Krispy Chaos

Krispy Chaos — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:22:14 +0000

I agree with the people who say that Net Admins have probably THE most thankless job that nobody even cares about until something breaks. When it does though, the first person blamed regardless is always the Net Admin.

By: Heem

Heem — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:18:05 +0000

You’re obviously working for the wrong company

By: CompguyG

CompguyG — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:15:16 +0000

Alot of my users seem to think that their work computers are their personal ones to install whatever they want. They get pissy when they can’t install because they don’t have admin rights. Also when their computer crashes, and I have to rebuild, I don’t recover the 15 billion songs they downloaded in iTunes. Some admins are just evil. Thinking about starting an Evil Admin club.. who’s in?

By: CompguyG

CompguyG — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:09:07 +0000

LOL net…. so true so true

By: CompguyG

CompguyG — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:08:29 +0000

as the network admin, I enjoy having the only key to my office. Mostly so the damn users leave me alone and I can play Half-Life

By: cT

cT — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:36:57 +0000

This isnt always true cause some users are really smart people, but for the most part, people in corporations know jack about computers. So when someone who does needs to explain something to them, or reset their password for the 14th time that year, they freak out and think that person is being arrogant for knowing somethign they dont. But lol at all the admins getting defensive and posting, myself included haha. Seriously tho, no one notices when we do an amazing job – your computer just works the way you expect it to >.>

By: ronnidee

ronnidee — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:40:14 +0000

seriously… why is that??!

By: Destin

Destin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:11:01 +0000

You’re right; network administrators do lots of stuff in binary.

By: net admin

net admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:46:33 +0000

no, we read your emails in case we need to blackmail you for something later

By: Network User

Network User — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:18:25 +0000

The problem with network admins is that when they are talking to someone who DOES have a clue about computers / networks, they still treat you like a retard and believe everything you say is a lie.

One guy the other day removed my network access after suspicious activity had been found on it “all night long”….. my laptop was completely off and I could prove it via the event log. But apparently I was still wrong.

By: BOFH

BOFH — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:09:09 +0000

i not arrogant at all, how could i. IT professionals are threated like the cleaning lady. worse sometimes.

all you guys and especially the creator of this waste of bytes:
think of it like this:
every day, 100s of people yell at you, because 1+1 isn’t 3. not much we can do about it, but yet we’ve got to put up with that kinda nonsene.

the other thing (that was already mentioned) is that the IT crew could have starved to death from 72h non-stop overtime, noboby would notice until something breaks und myspace is down…

By: Me

Me — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:21:37 +0000

Based on the comments, does this mean that 80% of users on this site are network admins?? You sure got a lot of time on your hands….

By: P.

P. — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:30:42 +0000

Kneel before me, for I am root…

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:21:21 +0000

I guess it just figures that the two most arrogant co-workers are the same person for me.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:33:02 +0000

We prefer “Gods of 1’s and 0’s.” We and our fellow admins forgive you this time, though

By: FloppyDonkey

FloppyDonkey — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:03:21 +0000

I thought the low opinion of co-workers came from reading their emails

By: painsaw

painsaw — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:52:42 +0000

I smite thine USB drive!

By: John

John — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:38:34 +0000

This is so true – power hungry freaks ha

By: hameltoe

hameltoe — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:48:12 +0000

I love special characters…

By: hameltoe

hameltoe — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:47:22 +0000

In my organization, we IA’s are definitely not arrogant. I work with gov’t yuppies who are full of themselves and cannot go a single day without making us feel like sh!t. F*CK DoD PUSS-C’s

By: failin'

failin' — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:26:51 +0000

and we have exhibit A over here…

By: panda

panda — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:53:15 +0000

It would be funnier if the receptionist was a just little more arrogant than the mail guy and Dave.

I mean, everyone KNOWS IT guys are arrogant.

By: jmurockstar

jmurockstar — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:47:41 +0000

agreed. my netmins are great, yet people are always blaming them when things break. (rather than realize that the person complaining reversed 2 octets in the IP they were typing)

By: JP

JP — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:31:20 +0000

lol
someone has forgotten that without the network admin, you can’t really do any work.

you could always go back to pen + paper. for everything.

GG?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:18:14 +0000

IT people have a right to be arrogant… if you had to deal with stupid people who think they know what they’re doing all day, you’d see why.

By: salohcin

salohcin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:27:55 +0000

So true, as a software developer I see it happen to network admins all the time.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:16:17 +0000

ooh touched a nerve have we?

By: Boris

Boris — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:22:53 +0000

Amount paid per hour of actual work... Receptionist - |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Dave in Accounting - |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Your Boss - |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| You - |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| The network admin - ||| Quit your griping. We work so you can play Solitaire.

By: w2bh

w2bh — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:11:22 +0000

Exactly.

By: fubuki

fubuki — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:08:29 +0000

You get a cookie, solely for specifying Dave in Accounting. Dave…

By: Alcar

Alcar — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:52:18 +0000

Think of it this way:
Ted from accounting doesn’t do his job – Ted gains 1 day backlog
Stacy the typist doesn’t do her job – Stacy gains 1 day backlog
Bill the CEO doesn’t do his job – nobody notices
Frank the sys/network admin doesn’t do his job – Nobody works, ever.