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Job loss tied to personal crisis and performance collapse in sysadmin work

March 24, 2026r/sysadmin

In r/sysadmin, a candid firing story links severe personal trauma to deteriorating performance, surfacing how little slack many ops roles have when reliability and accountability slip.

Got fired and I deserved it.
About two years in, we had our second child. He passed away from SIDS and I spiraled for a while.
Obviously I took a few weeks off, but the blast radius of this event still fucks with me.
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