Sys-Admin Appreciation Day Tomorrow

nrmrvrk (ner-mer-verk) writes "Tomorrow, the last Friday of July, is Sysadmin Appreciation Day! A special day, once a year, to acknowledge the worthiness and appreciation of the person occupying the role, especially as it is often this person who really keeps the wheels of your company turning." Thanks to Martin, BSD-Pat, Liz, CowboyNeal: the guys who get the thankless job of keeping our hardware running smoothly.

Comments

Re:***FUCK*** the sysadmin.

[The Man]

Sysadmin is like policeman. You might well go through your entire life without needing one, in which case the cost seems extravagant. But if you ever do need one, nothing less than a seasoned professional will do.

At best it should be treated as additional duties assigned to one of the programmers or other tech staff member, or even outsorce the job as needed to a temp service.

*sigh* You are completely clueless. There's nothing worse than a system run by a non-sysadmin. Programmers make the worst sysadmins on the planet. A monkey could do a better job of it. Honestly, you're better off with no sysadmin at all than with someone who really does something else but got forced into the job because nobody else wanted it.

Yet in some ways your analysis is correct: the really good sysadmins really don't have anything to do all day. They've already spent twelve 100-hour weeks setting everything up so perfectly that it runs itself, never needs fixing, and will last till the day the machines burn out. The programmer-sysadmins, on the other hand, seem to spend an awful lot of time fixing problems with the systems. Funny how that is. The fact that everything is working really is attributable to the admins. I've seen shops where things usually don't work right. Trust me, it's plenty possible to be a sufficiently lousy sysadmin that nothing ever works right. Of course, invariably those people are programmers or managers or brownnosing idiots or CIS/MIS fuckwits who are stuck doing sysadmin work until they can get back to their real jobs.

Go thank your admins for the fact you you never see them and the fact that they never do anything. That's the way it should be.

Re:You damn well should appreciate

[PsychoKiller]

I think there should be system user hate day

That only happens on days that end in 'y'

From the "How to Please Your IT Dept." department

[Wedman]

10 Easy steps Every User Should Know on 'How to Please Your IT Department':

1. When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it
buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals,
dried flowers, bowling trophies and children's art. We don't have a life,
and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.

2. Don't write anything down. Ever. We can play back the error messages
from here.

3. When an I.T. person says he's coming right over, go for coffee. That
way you won't be there when we need your password. It's nothing for us to
remember 700 screen saver passwords.

4. When I.T. support sends you an E-Mail with high importance, delete it
at once. We're just testing.

5. When an I.T. person is eating lunch at his desk, walk right in and
spill your guts right out. We exist only to serve.

6. Send urgent email all in uppercase. The mail server picks it up and
flags it as a rush delivery.

7. When something's wrong with your home PC, dump it on an I.T. person's
chair with no name, no phone number and no description of the problem. We
love a puzzle.

8. When the printer won't print, re-send the job at least 20 times. Print
jobs frequently get sucked into black holes.

9. When the printer still won't print after 20 tries, send the job to all
68 printers in the company. One of them is bound to work.

10. Don't learn the proper term for anything technical. We know exactly
what you mean by "My thingy blew up".

Don't use that URL!

[The Big Bopper]

It's just a domain squatter that is putting the site into a frame so they can spam you with banner ads at the bottom. The real site that they are ruining is http://www.kekatos.net/sysadmin.

These are the same creeps who are squatting on all the slashdot.org misspellings and putting our beloved News For Nerds site into frames.

Moderators please jack this up so people get the right site. (either way, it's still slashdotted right now)

THANKS A TON

[chowda]

Thanks for:

Playing XBoing all day
Telling everyone "I'll get to it in my *spare* time".
Insulting the boss and getting away with it.
That *interesting* oder..
Deleting my home directory then blaming me for not backing it up!(ass munch)
Never explaining ANYTHING!
Getting paid more for doing less.
Knowing *everything* and never being wrong.
Your incredible lack of patience.

And all the other little things that make you soooo invaluable.

You damn well should appreciate

[TheLer]

I think there should be system user hate day

Sometimes you by Force overwhelmed are.