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Straight out of Office Space and the TPS report. This person may exist at your workplace. They are a non coding type, they pick up a phone and call tech support when they have a question. Quite often they are a woman. A person who has wiggled themselves into a very secure well paying position in a company, because they are the only one who can do anything with an interface from the late 90's.

Database query tools are there favorite haunting ground. They can't make any revisions to the wonky, unfriendly software, but they gain power by lording over the mis entered data, and sending middle mangers out to scold you about your mistakes.

Straight out of Office Space and the TPS report. This person may exist at your workplace. They are a non coding type, they pick up a phone and call tech support when they have a question. Quite often they are a woman. A person who has wiggled themselves into a very secure well paying position in a company, because they are the only one who can do anything with an interface from the late 90's. Database query tools are there favorite haunting ground. They can't make any revisions to the wonky, unfriendly software, but they gain power by lording over the mis entered data, and sending middle mangers out to scold you about your mistakes.

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We have one of these. Our AIX admin. Has no clue.

that sounded like me, we'd inherited this ancient IBM mini computer running AIX and the guy who understood just left, so it got dumped on me. I knew naff all about UNIX, and because that was the only AIX machine and it ran an even more obscure Manufacturing system, then it wasn't an easy thing to learn anything about.

Luckily it was as solid as a rock and I rarely had to do anything. I doubt the company had a single clue just how much they relied on me to not to fuck it up...

I have to admit, Unix does its job and IBM makes some stellar reliable hardware, that box was older than the moon