It's definitely a fake bait post, what they're describing isn't even possible in the way they said. The post and the OP comment replies even look LLM generated as well. They somehow have a good reason why every legitimate suggestion can't work.

The account was commenting on the satirical sysadmin subreddit yesterday, so they know what makes a engaging story.

> They can't fire you, HR needs their computers for that, and you have ensured they cannot access those.

Brilliant :)

With auto redirect to old.reddit I can't access that.

Went to hot post on the sub, and it's [1], apparently

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1ta0h9u/i_am_goin...

Not sure that going straight to production with every change is really best practice for something that could have such a disasterous impact with no pair programming nor review. This process is going to create catastrophic errors sometimes its got zero guard rails, humans are going to make mistakes.

I am sad that HN no longer appears to modify the link to old.reddit

Seems fake

I always hated admins that required my system to shutdown or reboot, especially when it was done automatically or with a short notice.