fubarobfusco comments on Poll - Is endless September a threat to LW and what should be done? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 11 December 2012 06:30:18AM 5 points [-]

Try working in system administration for a while. Some people will think you are a god; some people will think you are a naughty child who wants to be seen as a god; and some people will think you are a sweeper. Mostly you will feel like a sweeper ... except occasionally when you save the world from sin, death, and hell.

Comment author: Epiphany 11 December 2012 09:30:14AM 1 point [-]

I feel the same way as a web developer. One day I'm being told I'm a genius for suggesting that a technical problem might be solved by changing a port number. The next day, I'm writing a script to compensate for the incompetent failures of a certain vendor.

When people ask me for help, they assume I can fix anything. When they give me a project, they assume they know better how to do it.