The PFY or Pimply-Faced Youth is the BOFH s apprentice in the Bastard Operator From Hell stories by Simon Travaglia. The PFY s name is Steven [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/10/08/arise_sir_bofh/][http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/10/bofh_2004_episode_41/].

The term PFY is now often used for a junior system administrator apprenticed to a more experienced sysadmin. The term is not as well known as BOFH.

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