My mind balks at the concept of living the life of a sysadmin without the teachings of The Bastard to use as a compass for making decisions...
"It's backup day today so I'm pissed off. Being the BOFH, however, does have it's advantages. I reassign null to be the tape device — it's so much more economical on my time as I don't have to keep getting up to change tapes every 5 minutes. And it speeds up backups too, so it can't be all bad can it? Of course not."
"Oh dear. There are three things wrong here: one, a user knows my extension number, which means: two, the helpdesk has been talking to the operator again; but more importantly: three, the operator is giving out my extension number to people."
"The boss is concerned about the amount of network traffic you consume and asks you to come and explain it. You'd take with you:
A) Traffic logs showing it was mostly Windows security updates
B) Falsified traffic logs showing it was mostly Windows security updates
C) Your union representitive
D) An axe, a large roll of carpet and a large quantity of polythene, a bag of lime.."
All hail the bastard!
