A typical thread

VA_Network_Nerd · 12日前

This thread was removed by the AutoModerator because it received 5 reports (apparently while we were sleeping - this thread had zero reports when I saw it last night).

With 140+ upvotes, 60+ comments, and 2 x Gildings I'm gonna overrule AutoModerator. Apparently you all want to discuss this topic.

Please carry on.

smallbluetext · 12日前

Just got my soup cert this week actually and spoons became obsolete last year with the introduction of the micro-ladle. Trust me it gets the job done better than any spoon.

theevilsharpie · 12日前

Your shitpost isn't accurate. Here's something that better reflects your typical exchange

OP: I'm looking for the fastest and cheapest way to heat pre-made soup. Any suggestions?

CR: Soup should never be pre-made. It tastes like crap. You make soup from scratch. What kind of chef are you? What kind of environment re-heats soup?

OP: I work in a small fast-food restaurant. We can't make fresh soup because it's too slow and too expensive, and our customers are specifically coming to us for fast and cheap food.

CR: Then get the SuperUltraHyperSoupMaker 3000, like the big chains use. You can keep it filled with ingredients, and it will make soup all day and keep it heated.

OP: I don't even have the budget for a free quote.

CR: You're in a shitty environment and don't do things right. The best practice is [whatever fancy restaurants or chains with orders of magnitude more revenue do], and if you can't do that, you may as well just give up.

OP: Reheating soup is so far removed from our primary revenue-generating activities that I'm not even sure our management knows that we do it. The odds of anyone investing a significant amount of money in this are minimal. I'm just trying to do the best I can with the resources that I have.

CR: Doesn't matter. If you don't do this in exactly the same way as the textbook corporation, you are failure and an embarrassment. Also, since I'm loud and seem to post right at the beginning of new threads (even though I'm supposedly a manager with a full-time job), I've already derailed any potential discussion you might have had. Sad!

sigmatic_minor · 12日前

I get that some of the parrallels being drawn on the types of responses sometimes are accurate, but I'm not sure I see what your point is..

Sometimes, I'm eating soup and my company and our customer absolutely will not allow for the spoon, or magical soup bowl 2.0 or a colder soup. The hot soup and the bowl are the specs I have to work with. So if someone from reddit has an answer I maybe haven't considered, to me it's worth the chance to ask.

When myself or other posters here have been in a similiar position, often I see some great out-of-the-box thinking that really helps AND meets the specs, I rarely just see bad answers and then a deleted post.

poke-it_with_a_stick · 12日前

You've made a decent analogy about quite a few of the threads on here... Now, what's your point?

sirex007 · 12日前

i think /u/crankysysadmin needs more gazpacho in his life.

Clickity_clickity · 12日前

Meanwhile on /r/talesfromtechsupport:

Suddenly, there was cold soup everywhere, and it was my fault. The spoons were on their way but wouldn't be here for another hour. The customer was seething. Somewhere, a child cried out.

Turns out the crockpot wasn't plugged in.

ranger_dood · 12日前

There will be commentary about using consumer class spoons and how you must work for a really shitty small place if you think you can hand an executive a spoon made out of plastic

Oh the irony in a crankysysadmin post.

i_pk_pjers_i · 12日前

Someone will tell the OP that he should quit immediately if he's eating soup with his hands and get a better job.

This is actually really good advice.

devonnull · 12日前

You forgot the pampered soup eater who is making a ton of money eating the soup but is going to go to a different restaurant because they aren't being paid enough or appreciated while talking with their mouths full about automated menus, food distribution, controlled ingredients management and licensing and that you're falling behind if you don't eat soup the way they do.

Hellman109 · 12日前

So the point of this is?

Ive seen you delete threads when they're downvoted and/or disagreed with plenty of times. If all we did was reply on how we washed our hands that would actually be doing a disservice to the OP.

The point of this forum is for discussion, if someone asks about ghosting a machine the much better way to do it is MDT/WDS/SCCM or similar and that should be brought up, especially if there are no qualifiers about why ghost is needed, I think that came up a week or two ago and the OP had a good reason for it.

Offering alternatives to problems is part of being a good sysadmin, you can use technology in numerous ways to solve a huge range of problems and most of them are a good way of doing it, depending on use cases, sizes, etc.

WoodChucking · 12日前

Unless you're a total n00b, you'll just use a spork for everything.

StrangeWill · 12日前

Did you pay for the expensive soup support package? If you do you can call support and they'll eat it for you.

I also know some consultants that specialize in soup eating.

TheFondler · 12日前

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multivacac · 11日前

I don't know about all these multi million dollar companies where you guys work where you can afford to talk about things like spoons, I was turned down again in my request to buy a pot to cook the soup in so we could just stop pouring the soup right onto the stove and then when it goes everywhere I am forced to stay all night and clean it with my toothbrush I had to bring from home. Also I don't get paid for it. And while I am doing this my boss goes into my house and steals things.

How can I change my horrible work environment? And please stop telling me I need a new job, this job pays terrible and is a 4 hour commute from my house.

owned_at_worms · 11日前

Sounds like something that could be resolved by contracting a good MSP. Managed Spoon Provider.

mbgotw · 12日前

That thought seems to be predicated on OP responding with "FUCK YOU, I DIDN"T ASK ABOUT SILVERWARE"

That, IMO, isn't what happens.

OP may say something along the lines of "uh, what does a spoon have to do with soup?", at which point people tell him he's an idiot, etc, etc.

motodoto · 12日前

There will be commentary about using consumer class spoons and how you must work for a really shitty small place if you think you can hand an executive a spoon made out of plastic.

Gee, I wonder who does that.

phatkez1 · 12日前

This was a great read to start my Monday morning. I was in bits at "Someone will challenge that and claim they have 25 years of experience and they use a fork."

eruffini · 12日前

I came for the soup, but all I got was this lousy spoon.

Slinkwyde · 12日前

NO SOUP FOR YOU!

shadoweye14 · 12日前

JOEY DOESNT SHARE SOUP!

badteeth3000 · 12日前

there is an powershell function that will clean the soup from your hands and remove the burning feeling and replace it with a dependency not found in psgallery (yet it is really there).

Reverb001 · 12日前

This is most internet discussions go.

jfoust2 · 12日前

What? You don't have a soup cloud? That's where everyone is getting their soup these days.

zapbark · 11日前

There is a lot of truth in your post.

But to use your metaphor.

If you don't like certain posts in /r/sysadmin. Isn't the proper way to deal with bad OPs and bad comments to downvote them?

That seems like the proper solution rather than a low info post?

trapartist · 12日前

ah, the sunday cranky shitpost

most of the other ones during the week are good, but i always feel like these sunday ones are 'i had a few drinks, here is what i think about...'

Anlarb · 12日前

Instructions unclear, made curry.

greybearded_goat · 12日前

I find /u/crankysysadmin to be the worst thing about this sub.

laaazlo · 12日前

When pressed, it turns out fork guy has welded the tines together and/or doesn't eat soup

bradgillap · 12日前

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Bellyfluous · 12日前

Petition to rename Systems Administrators to Soup Dragons

BrontosaurusB · 12日前

Instead, you should try to realize the truth. There is no spoon.

hthu · 11日前

I get your analogy, and it's a good one. But, I must remind you that sometimes when people post a seemingly moronic question asking for a solution while ignoring all the obvious work-arounds, it's because they are facing a situation that the obvious work-arounds don't (or can't) apply. It's easy for an outsider to point out the "spoon", but the real life circumstances of the OP might be that the spoon isn't actually available, and must do it without. You can't assume you know everything about OP's particular environment and its restrictions. Also, sometimes people post a question that's a parallel of their problem but not exactly, as in a hypothetical situation but the solution would help with their actual situation. They don't want to post the actual question because of fear of revealing their (or the organization's) real identity. We all know how that would play out badly, right.

Ugbrog · 11日前

The ending is lackluster, this would be slightly more accurate:

OP comments that he's resolved his issue. There are no additional details.

The next comment comes 5 years later from someone who accidentally got hot soup on his hands looking for help with cleaning them and dealing with the burns. All he wants to know is what OP ended up doing.

Amidatelion · 12日前

I'm not sure what I hate more, this post, its popularity, or the sheer quantity of gormless, oblivious neckbeards asking, "So what's your point?"

swollenlovepony · 12日前

You left out the part where you tell them that they're not smart enough to use a spoon because they don't have a college degree.

GiveMeBackMyPants · 11日前

Get-SoupSpoon | Set-SoupSpoon -Spork -Free

Remove-Sandwich -Identity RoastBeef

Add-Bowl -Type Ceramic -Style Flowery

redacteduserid · 12日前

You know what, I give up. I'm going to go and farm papier-mache balloons, it's much more rewarding and less stressful.

baggysmills · 12日前

Straws work pretty well for the broth.

bofh · 12日前

This reminds me of the thread from about a year ago about people thinking that linus tech tips idiot and his "tips" deserve the time of day.

Razithel · 12日前

Somewhere in there we're going to find out that the soup is made by Oracle and you can only use $100 Oracle HyperSpoons with this soup that end-of-life after a year.

pizzastevo · 12日前

I don't fucking care! Bring back my gazpacho soup piping hot!

slick8086 · 11日前

This problem can be avoided if when Sr. Sysadmins are training the youngns the introduce them to:

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

The situation you describe is one of the examples of how not to ask a question.

How can I use X to do Y

If what you want is to do Y, you should ask that question without pre-supposing the use of a method that may not be appropriate. Questions of this form often indicate a person who is not merely ignorant about X, but confused about what problem Y they are solving and too fixated on the details of their particular situation. It is generally best to ignore such people until they define their problem better.

Lupich · 11日前

It's almost as if most sysadmins are conceited assholes!

But seriously, sysadmins are generally conceited assholes. Having spent a ton of time in the hospitality industry, and then in a call center I can confidently say my soft skills far exceed 99.98% of IT guys I've met and that soft skills get you as far, if not further than, hard technical skills paired with a shitty attitude.

itisok4me · 12日前

Stupid post

MurphyLyfe · 12日前

I thought this was about stackoverflow for a minute

mattsl · 12日前

For the record, I don't think soup counts as food. It's just liquid. I do prefer sandwiches, or pretty much any other actual solid food.

creativeMan · 12日前

The first thing would be someone telling OP that they need to get the hell out of there and find a better job.

im_no_robo · 12日前

You forgot about migrating the soup to the cloud, you just need to make sure all the soup evaporates.

aXenoWhat · 12日前

Mods pls change my flair to "soupadmin"

Sandwich247 · 12日前

I mean, sandwiches are better than soup...

bitreign33 · 12日前

I prefer to drink my soup, after its cooled, and just bypass the spoon.

zerodamage · 12日前

I eat my soup with chopsticks. What kind of moron are you?

Worse_Username · 12日前

In Indian culture it is customary to eat with your hands, without cutlery as a sign of respect for the chef.

pleasedothenerdful · 12日前

This post and many of its progeny threads are so entertaining to me.

tupcakes · 12日前

You are all doing it wrong. Use bowless soup.

adude00 · 12日前

Welcome to the internet.

RPRob1 · 12日前

I eat my soup with bread. It works for me.

jfireballz · 12日前

This guy gets the big picture. People are like cats, they don't listen unless they want something, consider all help an attack and refuse to be herded unless many other cats are doing the same thing, and the cat community shuns them.

No wonder that IT managers are called cat herders.

TheElusiveFox · 12日前

Someone will challenge that and claim they have 25 years of experience and they use a fork.

Forks are just a branch of spoon that no one likes... all the pros use Spork.

eyessewnopen · 12日前

I eat soup with a fork.

tomkatt · 11日前

Look, I'm tired of being told to eat soup with a spoon. We in IT have all kinds of setups and sometimes a spoon isn't the best answer. I mean, sure, for a lot of cases it's great, but are you really going to tell me that a spoon is the best option for soup that's frozen, or gaseous after boiling?

Nice thread, Cranky. On the nose, even when being facetious.

mtfw · 11日前

If you're not using a grilled cheese sandwich distro to sop up all of that delicious soup, you're an idiot and should quit the profession.

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