Corporate Sysadmin. Three CIOs. Zero documented SOPs. Sponsored by: https://turbopuffer.com/ Interview with an Sysadmin with Walter Wallis - aired on © Sysadmin 2026. Find more characters on https://www.realsta.cc/sysadmin In this interview, a 2010-era Windows sysadmin explains how change management, and the phrase "currently, our position is no" have kept him employed through four "transformations" and one AI mandate. From the server that hasn't been rebooted since 2013, the 91 members in the temp security group, to the backup strategy that has never survived a restore test. ⏱ CHAPTERS 00:00 – Intro programminghumor programming jokes devops sysadmin windows admin IT admin citrix windows server officecomedy BOFH #sysadmin #programmingjokes #corporatehumor
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Knowledge goes in It doesn't come out Fucking killed me
"My job is not to fix things, it's to be the only one who could." is so real
"4000 pages in confluence" "search returns none of them" 😭😭😭
This monitor is as bright as the future of openAI
We secured everything with your phone We did not secure the phone
I am a Sysadmin with 15 years of experience in information technology. I am in this video, and I am scared
"We have single sign-on - one password for everything"
The form to request admin rights requiring admin rights is genius
"I send a company-wide announcement, it is opened by 33% of staff. I send a phishing test, it is opened by 85% of the company." I have no words, this line spoke to my soul.
"If everything works ... I don't know what happened - we might have been hacked, or something." Truer words.
We keep an old laptop around is a gods honest truth
Confluence : knowledge goes in, never comes out. EPIC.
"I do not support printers" 💀💀💀
The SysAdmin was WAYYY OVERDUE! Excellent work
"It cannot be done fast. It cannot be done faster". We need this on a T-shirts.
I can never decide if understanding all these jokes is a good thing or bad :D
I'm a Sysadmin now working 15 years in IT. I'm in this video and I am scared
at least someday the interns have the chance to get the env data back through chatgpt, we call it off-site backup
"We've never tested a restore. We don't have to. We have backups." Once a contractor tried to test restoring from backup in a test database. He "restored" prod to a backup of the test db.
"Kubernetes management level salary"... Need to remember that one for my next salary review.