"..., then you might have a dumb SA"

1. If you ask for a minor problem to be fixed, and now your entire computer is broke, then you might have a dumb SA.
   
   
2. If they keep asking you, a lowly user, for advice on how to fix the system, then you might have a dumb SA.
   
   
3. If they want to do it by an example in a book instead of the correct way, then you might have a dumb SA.
   
   
4. If your own dot-files start becoming owned by root, then you might have a dumb SA.
   
   
5. If they say they're upgrading the system and it takes 2 weeks to get anything to work again, then you might have a dumb SA.
   
   
6. If you're spending more time on the phone with the helpdesk then you do working, then you might have a dumb SA.
   
   
7. If you have to explain what's wrong with your computer more then 3 times, then you might have a dumb SA.
   
   
8. If their answer to why they did something illogical is "because someone said so", then you might have a dumb SA.
   
   
9. If they say they can't do something simple because some script doesn't work, then you might have a dumb SA.
   
   
10. If all of a sudden your system says "/usr: No such file or directory", then you might have a dumb SA.
    
    
11. If you login one day and all your files are gone without reason, then you might have a dumb SA.
    
    
12. If you start recieving "Permission denied" on your own home directory, then you might have a dumb SA.
    
    
13. If you dread calling your support people to report a system problem, then you might have a dumb SA.
    
    
14. If 2 minutes after you were in the middle of something important and your machine rebooted, and then you get a call telling you that your machine will be rebooted, then you might have a dumb SA.
    
    
15. If one minute your system menu is fine and the next it's messed up and you didn't do a thing, then you might have a dumb SA.
    
    
16. If you ask for a path to be fixed and the next day your largest directory has been deleted, then you might have a dumb SA.
    
    
17. If one day some of your files dissappear for no reason and the next thing you know you see them floating by on IRC, then you might have a dumb SA.
    
    
18. If you try to compile something just to find out both the C++ and Sybase system header files are unreadable, then you might have a dumb SA.
    
    

For those of you that don't know what SA is, it means "System Administrator".

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