Sysadmins feel burned out from work
11 posts across 5 communities in the last 60 days; 64% from r/sysadmin.
“The internet will not be brought down by a government or some nefarious evil mastermind bent on global domination but by a fed up sys admin.”
“Yep that's absolutely the rub for me... I have to answer some questions on occasion from them that makes me wonder how these people got their jobs and how they manage to keep them.”
“It's all good. It's not on you that the internet has the attention span of a gnat.”
Several sysadmins express exhaustion and burnout, indicating a need for better workload management or career changes within the IT field. Some acknowledge the inevitability of system failures due to overworked staff.
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“Might check it out. Sounds like something to easily fall asleep to [re: We're having sysadmins in our organization pass away at unsettling rates. These guys were all fairly young. Is anyone else having this happen? What gives?]”
I do that when WFH, but not in office so it's not on their devices
“Yep that's absolutely the rub for me... I have to answer some questions on occasion from them that makes me wonder how these people got their jobs and how they manage to keep them.”
“Same except it only took me 3 years and 3 months. Just quit tho since our new CIO has no IT background and gutted the entire department and is peddling AI slop 🥰”
“I get that but quitting isn’t always easy. While I did have the backing of the admin, there were things I couldn’t do just cause there is only so much you can change at one time while keeping the business operation. But I was also the new guy and people didn’t want to change and it caused me headaches. One I had trouble getting people to stop is passwords.txt on the desktop 😩 I told one person to use a password manager and delete the file and he said “I’ll just put it I Dropbox” Which the compa”
“You should work for an MSP that supports 20-ish people companies. They don't roll out dumb bullshit like this.”
In it since mid 90s. I am ITCHING to retire, I'm tired, boss.
“The internet will not be brought down by a government or some nefarious evil mastermind bent on global domination but by a fed up sys admin.”