I want to hear your (preferably real) reasons you got fired.

  • mlg@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    So, they didn’t know how to properly configure prometheus. I tell them I can kill 2 birds with one stone. No, prometheus bad. Rejected.

    Bruh I would trust a high schooler to successfully spin up prometheus; stories like this are what make more grateful for my job, brings back memories of insane posts on r/sysadmin

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      6 hours ago

      They had one single Prometheus node for the entire company and couldn’t figure out why it needed so much CPU. They never once thought that maybe they set it up incorrectly