I was a sort of webmaster for a portal
I would turn up at 8:30am, boot up the computer. Go upstairs, retrive the fire-safe key and go open the safe. Take out that day's back up cassette. Go to the server room and swap it for yesterday's cassette. Lock up safe and put key back.
Go back downstairs, check my emails which wer never anything decent. Download the logfile from the web-server which took 5 mins whilst making a coffee. Come back, run it through Webtrends to create a report which took another 10mins. Drink coffee.
Go back upstairs, (and this shows how ridiculous the website was put together by a third-part developer) take the website offline for about 5 mins whilst I run a small script to add new stuff to the live database. Restart website.
Go back downstairs, copy graph and figures from Webtrends report into Excel, print it out and plonk it on line-manager's desk.
All done by 9am at the very latest and that was me done for the day.

I worked it out, that even though it was a pitiful pre-min wage salary of £9k, it worked out at £88 per hour.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 13:24, 1 reply)

Yeah
My 3-month stint covering for our sysadmin involved a similar amount of work. Unfortunately for me the company had sussed this fact right from the start, so I had to keep doing my previous job as well throughout.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 13:33, closed)