Holiday Prayers in the Server Room

Description

A photo shows several shirtless people kneeling or standing in front of tall server racks with their hands pressed together as if praying. The caption at the bottom reads, "IT Team before going on Holiday." The joke is that operations teams often leave for vacation hoping fragile servers, undocumented fixes, and production systems will stay stable without human intervention.

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SysadminLife SystemAdministration ServerRoomStories Infrastructure ITOperations ProductionSupport SystemReliability FragileSystems BusinessContinuity WorkLifeBalanceTips WorkplaceIrony

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick The runbook says failover is automatic; the posture says everyone has read the incident history.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The runbook says failover is automatic; the posture says everyone has read the incident history.
@obemenko 5y

There is only one thing I can't understand. Why are they naked?
1. @TERASKULL 5y
  
  Servers running pretty hot, you know
  
  @obemenko 5y
  
  Oh yeah, forgot about this
@obemenko 5y

Is it a part of this tradition?
Slava 5y

No we don't going. need to work tomorrow too
1. @chupasaurus 5y
  
  Ah, good old slavery