SysAdmin Alignment Chart

Suzanne-Spiceworks · 2020-07-29T22:00:15.000Z

In honor of SysAdmin Day, I wanted to do a SysAdmin-specific version of the IT Alignment Chart I did last year. So, here it is:

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Let me know what you think.

Also, many many thanks to @SatansBrotherDave and to the other people in this thread who offered excellent suggestions.

What is your SysAdmin alignment?

Lawful Good
Lawful Neutral
Lawful Evil
Neutral Good
Neutral
Neutral Evil
Chaotic Good
Chaotic Neutral
Chaotic Evil

0 voters

tim-smith · 2020-07-30T01:13:28.000Z

“No documentation? No Problem! No one uses it anyway.”

Bwuhahaha! I guess I’m chaotic evil even though I’m in the process of creating lawful good cabling.

battle3364 · 2020-07-30T04:50:23.000Z

In today’s environment where every person brings three of their own devices and wanting all to play nicely on the network at the same time, GOOD NEUTRAL levels the playing field to tell people what’s acceptable and encouraged for BYOD. There’s a plethora of documentation on the web for how your device, with its version on this network, etc will work.

My job remains to keep the network and systems stable and secure for staff productivity regardless. I draw the line on what’s unnecessary when I need to.

mschmidt4 · 2020-07-30T05:20:34.000Z

I love the chaotic evil one I think i’m something between neutral and lawful neutral

Steve6343 · 2020-07-30T06:45:57.000Z

I want to play “noughts and crosses” with this and select Lawful Good, Neutral AND Chaotic Evil. If you can wear more than one hat, why not!

stratoskyris · 2020-07-30T06:59:13.000Z

Colleague: Hey, I need the documentation for x…

Me:

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ckcoder · 2020-07-30T09:48:11.000Z

My documentation is useless. I can’t read it, so I stopped writing it down. Luckily my memory is impeccable as long as things make it to long term. Short term sucks, I can’t even remember starting this post.

leighcameron · 2020-07-30T10:03:42.000Z

I use this line way too much:
“If just we had some sort of large inter-connected source of unlimited information and knowledge, available all the time…”

CharlesHTN · 2020-07-30T10:14:33.000Z

Here I was getting closer to Lawful Good, and then last week I hung a Dell Inspiron AIO Touch on the wall, which required the disassembly of the mounting arm, which was cannibalized to make a custom (plywood) adapter to allow it to be VESA mounted.

Oh well, I guess I don’t need to worry as much about documentation.

But the cabling, oh yeah, it’s gorgeous.

randomparts · 2020-07-30T11:13:12.000Z

I’m actually between lawful neutral and neutral but I went with neutral in my vote.

sluggosqueen · 2020-07-30T11:18:40.000Z

Not that anyone reads or uses the documentation. They just call me. Or stop me. Or come to my home. Or throw themselves in front of my car. They will NEVER put in a help desk ticket so I can attach the documentation for them to read.

troyharkness · 2020-07-30T11:28:56.000Z

sluggosqueen:

Not that anyone reads or uses the documentation. They just call me. Or stop me. Or come to my home. Or throw themselves in front of my car. They will NEVER put in a help desk ticket so I can attach the documentation for them to read.

This just makes me think of …

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cdstarkey · 2020-07-30T11:32:50.000Z

Neutral leaning towards Lawful? Is that an option?

Colts · 2020-07-30T11:37:10.000Z

This is really pretty cool…

Nicely done @suzanne-spiceworks !

spiceuser-gmunc · 2020-07-30T11:54:10.000Z

Documentation? Pssssshh. When I started at my current company, I was sat at a desk and told “Here you go” and then my boss walked away. I was a little confused… Where’s the data center, what’s the domain name, Where to tickets come from, what are the open issues, what common problems are we seeing, what kind of regular maintenance (outside of monthly updates) are needed, Where’s the vcenter login, whaaaaa???

After it was clear he was not coming back, I just dove into documentation… what can I learn about our environment? Gotta start somewhere. Yeah, it was pretty much a Chaotic Evil feel per our new documentation above.

lamocon · 2020-07-30T11:57:30.000Z

This was a really hard choice between Neutral and Lawful Neutral. However, I have had the occasional bouts of Chaotic Neutral especially if bacon is involved.

jeffnoel · 2020-07-30T12:17:12.000Z

Looking at that chart, I would have to say that my pragmatism allows me to choose an alignment based on the problem and the person.

Suzanne-Spiceworks · 2020-07-30T12:20:03.000Z

ghijkmnop:

Looking at that chart, I would have to say that my pragmatism allows me to choose an alignment based on the problem and the person.

Sounds like a very Chaotic Neutral answer to me.

seanwolsey · 2020-07-30T12:29:50.000Z

Neutral for me. It’s a good balance that keeps me sane and my users happy.

mrg3 · 2020-07-30T12:38:09.000Z

I don’t know. I think sometimes its more like this.