What I've noticed is that some people really get off on saving the day in a desperate situation, cause that's where people really notice you. "Oh, yeah, he stayed up for three days straight rebuilding the SAN with a magnetic toothpick!" As opposed to "He spent three weeks reworking the monitoring system and adding monitors and we found out that the SAN was throwing sporadic disk failures so we replaced three disks and nobody ever noticed there was going to be a problem."

Smart, but stupid.