You get pressured to give the researcher superuser rights because they 'need to do things' A few days later:
"I accidentally did chmod -R 777 / to the system....and now I think I need to get on to the root user to reverse this....Can you send me the credentials for that? Or do you have a quick fix for it?"
Er, no mate. You're fucked. And LOL at the idea there is some sort of super-root that can magically fix it.
@posrev Oh it's much more dangerous, but the assumption you can google your way through is nevertheless highly prevalent.
@posrev The educated classes think these jobs are dirty and unskilled, so they assume it must be easy.
@posrev Yes my wife is a nurse and says there is pressure for them all to get degrees and become desk people. It's crazy. I do think trades and maker community is slowly changing this though.
@posrev The international community held NZ up as a model, too.
I tell you. Been doing this for a decade. It happens every fucking time.