Dark blue on black is chaotic evil
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Also chaotic neutral: prioritizes issues by curiosity.
Oh hey, it’s me!
ADHD, eh?
I dunno about OP, but I am, and I have definitely prioritized tickets based on how interesting they sound.
User setup for a new hire that is already here and waiting? Meh. Weird network problem with no apparent solution which will likely require days of investigation? Sounds good.
I’m definitely guilty of that sometimes.
Lawful evil should be: asks you to make a ticket, closes it immediately and tells you it’s not an issue, it’s working as designed.
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Tim Apple your ears are burning, we’re talking about you
Lawful good is asking for trouble. Before they know it, they’ll be inundated with e-mails to their personal company address with poorly worded help requests. They’ll spend half their time making and updating tickets on the user’s behalf that would have been mostly automatic if they’d gone the Lawful Neutral route. They need to insist requests are sent to the main support address. I’m assuming that’s tied directly to the ticketing system.
When I was being Lawful slightly-better-than-neutral, I’d create the ticket and then put a paragraph in the reply telling them to please not e-mail me directly in future, because one day I might be unavailable and their e-mail could go unseen for hours or even days.
Repeat offenders would eventually do it at a time when things were busy too, so I’d be concentrating on the tickets and not things to my personal address, so that slight delay often helped it sink in.
Lawful neutral cuz in 6mo when some “controller” punches three buttons to run a report and asks “Hey why’d you do that?” THEN I’ll have documentation. And a job.
Make ticket, receive assistance. Fight me on that and I’ll add you to my email inbox’s ruleset - I am now an LLM, and will gentle-tone you to death via faux misunderstandings
Yep, hard-line lawful neutral. Though I lean chaotic evil when someone high enough on the food chain starts complaining.
Only if we like you.
See also: BOFH
Going by what OP thinks “Chaotic Evil” means for sysadmins, they have clearly never heard of BOFH.
BOFH: hooked up the mains to the doorknob and asked a luser to bring their laptop over for personal attention and repair.
Chaotic good.
Completing a 10 mins ticket for something you end up fixing in seconds. Fucking chore.
I fucking hate this.
Most days I spend more time accounting for my work than I do actually working.
I’ve been a chaotic neutral more times than I would like to admit.
Only part I miss from going at the office. It’s not the same when you have to bake your own bribes.
That’s when you update your sig with your address and a link to a local delivery venue
That is brilliant. I hope it works like old Amazon gift links where the sender does not get the recipient’s address. 😀
Blue on black is pretty evil to me.
Can we call this out on terminal text editors too? Some just color lines based on their content, and frequently comments end up being blue on black and it’s impossible to read.
This comment describes the options for the next parameter in this config file, but I have no idea what it says, so I guess I’m fucked?
But none of these are real, in the real world IT won’t touch your issue unless you create a ticket, then when you do they just never do anything about it anyway
In my experience I create a ticket, then after 3 days of not hearing anything they manually close it as resolved while having done nothing
Sometimes I’m neutral good and other times chaotic good. I’m at a relatively small company though, so I’d probably be different at a megacorp.
I went from the sole IT person at a small/medium business for 9+ years to a new role at a big company with divisions and shit. In my previous position, depending on the day, I fell in every category, but usually chaotic good on good days. Now I’m pretty much neutral to lawful good. I’ll dabble in the neutral evil as I see fit, because PEBCAK and ID10t issues have no bounds.
I’m guilty of pushing massive commits with several different changes and just commenting “bump version”
Worked the first six years of my career using no version history tracking or backups at all on one of our main systems. Nobody knew we didn’t have backups and I didn’t know how to use git and figured it wasn’t so important since I was maintaining it alone anyway.
(I don’t do any of those things anymore)
All hail “squash and merge”
Chaotic evil is “creates ticket, but intentionally words the problem poorly before logging off, leaving the junior help desk worker to fend for himself and giving you the solution to a different problem that isn’t relevant in your case”
Really, there’s a vast number of ways for IT support to be evil or chaotic. I wonder if there was ever a viral fiction series in the early internet about it…
that would make someone a real bastard…
Sounds like somebody straight from hell
Chaotic evil is “makes you create a ticket, doesn’t work on it, and then blames the ticket for the downtime to the CEO.”
Goddamn I felt this one!
I’m chaotic good in my heart but lawful good because one needs a record of their work come review season.
