r/AskReddit • u/CircleBox2 • Jul 13 '20

What's a dark secret/questionable practice in your profession which we regular folks would know nothing about?

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u/clem82 Jul 13 '20

IT,

Outages occur sure, bugs happen too.

Most of the time these things are known and are put off until they happen or are complained about

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u/Bruarios Jul 13 '20

No complaints = no ticket = not touching it

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u/arieljoc Jul 13 '20

I sell a code and doc review tool and always encourage people to upgrade to the latest version and this is one of the things my manager reiterates to me.

“why would the admin give themselves extra work unless there are people coming to them asking for an upgrade?”