Sysadmin price list?
Thomas Koenig
door (somebody who was administring a system besides doing a PhD,
as a sort of sidejob).
It went something like
Fortran question: $2.00
TeX question: $2.00
Reloading a file: $3.00
Restoring mail: $3.50
Writing a Makefile: $5.00
and finished with
It stopped working, and I changed NOTHING: $20.00
Does anybody know where the original came from, or maybe has a few
contribution? A friend needs to put something up at his door
urgently ;-)
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Thomas Koenig, Thomas...@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig...@dkauni2.bitnet.
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logarithmic diagram.
Douglas G. Henke
(Thomas Koenig) writes:
> I've recently seen a "sysadmin price list" somebody had stuck to their
>[remainder of post omitted]
During my days as a sysadmin at the SSC, I had the following next to the
door for a while:
Price Schedule:
Routine Fix..................$30.00
If you watch.................$40.00
If you help..................$75.00
If you worked on it first...$350.00
(Shamelessly stolen from a similar sign I saw once in an auto mechanic's
shop.)
-DGH
David Meyer
>Paul Evans' Laws on System Administration:
> #1 If users are made to understand that the system administrator's
>job is to make the computers run, and not to make users happy, they
>can, in fact, be made happy most of the time.
> #2 If users are allowed to believe that the system administrator's
>job is to make users happy, they can, in fact, never be made happy.
>Futhermore, in their quest for happiness, they will cause enough
>resources to be diverted to trying to make them happy that the
>computers will no longer run.
> -- p...@erg.sri.com
This jewel gets posted on the wall, where I'm sure our 'customers' will
enjoy and appreciate it.
Par Leijonhufvud labtek
Answering the same question the second time..........$20
/P{r
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Bill Beckner
> How about
> Answering the same question the second time..........$20
How about this:
Labor Rates
Regular 24.50/hr
If you wait 30.00/hr
If you watch 35.00/hr
If you help 50.00/hr
If you worked on it yourself 60.00/hr
If you laugh 75.00/hr
:)
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If this stuff worked, you wouldn't need me!
Debbie Schwartz
>How about
>
>Answering the same question the second time..........$20
>
right after the first question (maybe he thinks if he asks me
the same question enough times I'll say what he wants to hear)
..........$500)
(Oh, yeah, after he asks me the same question 2 or 3 times,
he will then turn to another sysadmin and ask them the
exact same question.)
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Debbie Schwartz d...@halcyon.com (Seattle, WA)
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ladies should refrain from it..very young married ladies may be
allowed to waltz if it is very seldom..." 1833
Michael Robert Williams
How about:
Remove 2 (or more) Mac disks from the same drive .......... $50
Look sympathetic when user types for 5 hours, doesn't
save, and looses everything due to a system crash ....... $20
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John Kinsella
Labor Rates
Regular rates: free (there's no such thing as REGULAR!)
If you interrupt me while I was reading news:
$25/hr
If you interrupt me while I was trying to count all the xroaches
on my screen:
$35/hr
If you interrupt me while I was trying to actually fix somebody
else's problem:
$45/hr
If you try to hang around and get me to fix it now
$50/hr
If you expect me to tell you how I fixed it:
$60/hr
If you've come to ask me why something isn't working that I'm
currently working on:
$70/hr
If you're asking me to fix something I fixed for you yesterday:
$75/hr
If you're asking me to fix something I told you I fixed yesterday,
but never did fix:
$85/hr
If you're asking me to fix a quick patch that I made that didn't work:
$95/hr
If you're buggine me while there's another admin in the room who could
have done it for you:
$150/hr
....now, if I could only get paid like this...;)
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John L. Kinsella | University of California, Davis
jlki...@engr.ucdavis.edu | Finger account for public key!
Derek Peschel
Michael Robert Williams <mr...@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU> wrote:
>How about:
Questioning the other prices .................................$50
-- Derek
Keith F. Lynch
> Answering the same question the second time..........$20
Thanks.
How much for answering the same question the second time?
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Nicholas C. Weaver
Keith F. Lynch <k...@access.digex.net> wrote:
>> Answering the same question the second time..........$20
>How much for answering the same question the second time?
For answering the same question for the nth time, the cost is
$5*(2^n). Care to ask again?
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Joe Morris
On 15 Feb 1995 23:17:52 GMT John Kinsella wrote:
> Labor Rates
> Regular rates: free (there's no such thing as REGULAR!)
> If you interrupt me while I was reading news:
> $25/hr
> If you interrupt me while I was trying to count all the xroaches
> on my screen:
> $35/hr
> If you interrupt me while I was trying to actually fix somebody
> else's problem:
> $45/hr
> If you try to hang around and get me to fix it now
> $50/hr
> If you expect me to tell you how I fixed it:
> $60/hr
> If you've come to ask me why something isn't working that I'm
> currently working on:
> $70/hr
> If you're asking me to fix something I fixed for you yesterday:
> $75/hr
> If you're asking me to fix something I told you I fixed yesterday,
> but never did fix:
> $85/hr
If while fixing problem, I fiddle too much and have to restore
something from tape:
$90 flat fee
> If you're asking me to fix a quick patch that I made that didn't work:
> $95/hr
> If you're buggine me while there's another admin in the room who could
> have done it for you:
> $150/hr
> ....now, if I could only get paid like this...;)
> ___
> John L. Kinsella | University of California, Davis
> jlki...@engr.ucdavis.edu | Finger account for public key!
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Richard Owain Hughes
>
>Answering the same question the second time..........$20
$200 to walk across a main road and half way through a building to type
boot <enter> on someone's machine because the caretaker had unplugged
it the night before.
Richard
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R.Hu...@uea.ac.uk
Michael J. Suzio
Calling me with a stupid question -- $20
Calling me with a stupid question you can't quite articulate - $30
Implying I'm incompetant because I can't interpret your
inarticulate problem description - $1000+punitive damages
Calling me back with the same problem *after* I fix it once - $100
Insisting that you're not breaking the software, the
problem is on my end somehow - $200
Asking me to walk over to your building to fix the problem - $5/step
Asking me to drive to another town to fix your problem - $50/mile+gas
- Mike
Nathan Hughes
after hanging up the phone - $1500.00
Explaining a problem for 1/2 hour over the phone BEFORE mentioning it's
your personal machine at home - $500.00
Self-diagnosing your problem and informing me what to do - $150.00
Having me bail you out when you perform your own repairs I told you not
to do - $300.00
Not telling all of your co-workers about it - $850.00
Figuring out you mean floppy drive when you say hard drive - $50.00
BEFORE I order your replacement hard drive - $250.00
Fixing your "broken" mouse with a mousepad - $25.00
Fixing your "broken" printer with an ink/toner cartridge - $35.00
Fixing your "broken" ANYTHING with the power button - $250.00
Special Rates
-------------
Dealing with user body odor - $75.00/hour
Dealing with user not familiar with the primary language spoken at site
- $50.00/hour
Dealing with user who is (self-proclaimed) smarter than you are, but still
calls every other day for help - $100.00/hour
Dealing with computer hobbiests - $125.00/hour
[...]
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\o)/ U of Mich Dearborn Technical Support
Richard Owain Hughes
Nathan Hughes <nhu...@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> wrote:
>Making me trek to your office to fix your problem then leaving immediately
>after hanging up the phone - $1500.00
<other stuff deleted>
Do I sense a certain level of annoyance?
Is anyone compiling these (no, I am not volunteering)?
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"If you're sitting around your house playing albums backwards, you *are*
Satan. You needn't look any further." Bill Hicks
Nathan Hughes
>In article <nhughes....@tiamat.umd.umich.edu>,
>Nathan Hughes <nhu...@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> wrote:
>>Making me trek to your office to fix your problem then leaving immediately
>>after hanging up the phone - $1500.00
>Do I sense a certain level of annoyance?
Of course you do. Of course, that comes with the job...
(As probably everyone else who's posted these can attest, these are
actual experiences. *sigh* Believe it or not. All 'o them.)
Michael Rogero Brown (Sys Admin)
: s1...@cpcroh.cpc.uea.ac.uk (Richard Owain Hughes) writes:
: >In article <nhughes....@tiamat.umd.umich.edu>,
: >Nathan Hughes <nhu...@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> wrote:
: >>Making me trek to your office to fix your problem then leaving immediately
: >>after hanging up the phone - $1500.00
: >Do I sense a certain level of annoyance?
: Of course you do. Of course, that comes with the job...
: (As probably everyone else who's posted these can attest, these are
: actual experiences. *sigh* Believe it or not. All 'o them.)
We can believe it. Unfortunatly.
And can tell of even worse ones. Even more unfortunatly.
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real estate to sell you.
Lon Stowell
>
>Is anyone compiling these (no, I am not volunteering)?
Who NEEDS to compile them. Any sysadmin can just look in their
problem log. >:-)
Arthur Marsh
: (As probably everyone else who's posted these can attest, these are
: actual experiences. *sigh* Believe it or not. All 'o them.)
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: \o)/ U of Mich Dearborn Technical Support
OK, how much for restarting a remote machine which involved picking up the
key for the site from a third party, all between Christmas dinner main course
and desert?
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art...@gateway.dircsa.org.au
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David Farley
Richard Owain Hughes <s1...@cpcroh.cpc.uea.ac.uk> wrote:
>In article <nhughes....@tiamat.umd.umich.edu>,
>Nathan Hughes <nhu...@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> wrote:
>>Making me trek to your office to fix your problem then leaving immediately
>>after hanging up the phone - $1500.00
>
Calling up with a problem which "everybody" in the office is having
and which is "stopping all work." Not being there when I rush over to
look at it and nobody else in the office knows anything about it. -
$1700.00
Smaller problems:
Reporting slow connection by passenger pigeon packets to MPEG archive
in Outer Slobavia as a Mosaic/Netscape/Gopher/FTP client problem -
$25.00
Reporting it more than once - $50.00
Reporting it more than once and implying slothfullness on tech
support's inability to solve problem - $200.00
David