[ale] wouldn't be as funny were it not true

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 06/11/2014 11:04 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
>
>         From the /. announcement of RHEL7 release in the comments:
>
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>         across IT shops across the nation
>         <http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5264619&cid=47205559>
>         (Score:5
>         <http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/06/10/1815208/red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-released#>,
>         Funny)
>
> by nimbius <http://slashdot.org/%7Enimbius> (983462) 
> <http://slashdot.org/%7Enimbius> on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @03:24PM 
> (#47205559 
> <http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5264619&cid=47205559>) 
> Homepage <http://nimbius.36bit.com/>
> *C-Level*: Red Hat has a new version of internet, we should install it.
> *PHB*:right away! PM! Red hat has an OS! lets install it
> *PM*: Of course! Engineering! how are we on the RHEL 7 project!?
> *Senior Engineer*: I dont remember getting one did I give it to you?
> *Infrastructure group*: you never approved our upgrade to RHEL 4 
> because it required Oracle downtime. You never agreed to the RHEL 3 
> upgrade because our proxy cant go down or the PHB cant get to 
> facebook. We were told not to upgrade the RHEL 2 fileservers because 
> the PHB keeps his motivational MP3's there. The only machine we have 
> running RHEL6 is the one you made us install four days ago because you 
> attended a webinar..so...i guess we'll have it upgraded by the end of 
> the week.
> *PHB*: whoa there pump your brakes guys...dont touch that server. if 
> you take it offline i might not be able to get to the webinar next year!

Wow.

I am reminded of something else I saw recently...

http://aplawrence.com/Lighter/sysadm_wanted.html and it's follow-up 
http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/system_admin.html

Falls into the same category as the subject, pretty much exactly. :-)

     --- Mike
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