--- title: *Next-door Sysadmin* | daily.dev description: A humorous, relatable account of corporate IT dysfunction told from a sysadmin's perspective. Covers classic pain points: a Confluence instance where search is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/next-door-sysadmin--xtokwrq6t twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: *Next-door Sysadmin* | daily.dev og:description: A humorous, relatable account of corporate IT dysfunction told from a sysadmin's perspective. Covers classic pain points: a Confluence instance where search is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/next-door-sysadmin--xtokwrq6t og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xToKWRq6t.png og:image:alt: *Next-door Sysadmin* og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # *Next-door Sysadmin* **[Programmers are also human](https://daily.dev/sources/programmersarealsohuman)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A humorous, relatable account of corporate IT dysfunction told from a sysadmin's perspective. Covers classic pain points: a Confluence instance where search is broken, Excel used as a real database, a security group called Temp_Access_Do_Not_Use with 91 members, circular admin rights forms, change advisory boards blocking urgent work, patches deployed Monday morning instead of Sunday night, phishing tests outperforming real announcements, and the ever-present threat of interns leaking .env files to ChatGPT. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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