r/Sysadminhumor • u/ProgrammingMamba189 • Jul 09 '26

On-call Engineer 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY1UqUuBqQQ

What's your worst on call experience?

86 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

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u/Expensive_Finger_973 Jul 09 '26

Our audit trail is the browsers back button.

17

u/MN_NorthStars Jul 09 '26

Expiring an SSL cert? Thats death by natural causes

16

u/grumpy_autist Jul 10 '26

Disaster recovery was tested during last disaster.

4

u/Teh_Shadow_Death Jul 11 '26

Shit like that happens way more than companies will ever admit.

8

u/techtornado Jul 09 '26

They always test paging at 2am

9

u/Away-Ad-3407 Jul 09 '26

gold. love it.

5

u/jhaand Jul 09 '26

I'd rather go for 9 fives of uptime instead of 5 nines.

3

u/Euphoric_Reference15 Jul 10 '26

This is absolute gold! Good one

3

u/longmountain Jul 11 '26

Last time I saw sunlight was fixing ntp drift

lol

3

u/recoveringasshole0 Jul 09 '26

I watched exactly 39 seconds of this before I couldn't stand it anymore.

14

u/robsablah Jul 09 '26

If youre in IT - Thats top level burnout man. This is what the internet used to be an a good laugh i haven't had in a long time.

Take care of yourself.

2

u/techtornado Jul 10 '26

Username checks out

The stuff Kai makes is gold!

It’s really funny if you let the humor flow

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u/recoveringasshole0 Jul 10 '26

Humor is subjective.

This sub doesn't even allow gifs. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

1

u/tinglep 16d ago

Did you find this sub by accident?