Sys Admin Job Description
Implicit in our job descriptions, I postulate these concepts for your approval;
1. We fix everything we can, given the inventory of our tools and components.
2. We cover our supervisor’s posteriors by giving them detailed worst-case scenarios of the potential costs associated with failures of what we are give to work with, and recommendations of what would prevent that. (Don’t forget to mention putting retreads on a Ferrari).
3. We cover our posteriors by keeping copies of such documents in our “Pearl Harbor” file — ESPECIALLY if they don’t cover our posteriors by giving us what we need to prevent those scenarios…
If we don’t detail the consequences of their failure to help us keep the systems reliable, IT IS OUR FAULT – not theirs.
– Someone sent this to me a few years ago — I can’t take credit for it, but I don’t remember who sent it so I can’t fully give them credit.
