I agree. I mean I’ve got my war stories from when I was a sysadm, and I laugh about them, but at the end of the day I knew that computers were (are) really arcane, and the people I was hired to support had jobs to do that didn’t include the words “computer science” (but did include words like “histopathologist”)
BOFH to me was always the epitome of those few people who liked to lord it over others who they considered to be less smart than them - “lusers”. I knew a few admins and programmers like this and they weren’t ever half as smart as they thought they were.
BOFH always felt to me like a celebration of stupidity, which is never something I find entertaining, and I was never quite convinced that it was the victims who were stupid.
BOFH to me was always the epitome of those few people who liked to lord it over others who they considered to be less smart than them - “lusers”. I knew a few admins and programmers like this and they weren’t ever half as smart as they thought they were.
BOFH always felt to me like a celebration of stupidity, which is never something I find entertaining, and I was never quite convinced that it was the victims who were stupid.