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DepecheModem writes: "MSNBC is running an article about System Administrator Appreciation Day. Ted Kekatos created this holiday three years after seeing a poster of a system administrator being bombarded with presents. Feeling somewhat underappreciated, he declared his "day" as the last Friday in July. I think we should all remind our employers that administrators are people too and proudly wear our buttons bearing "Have you hugged your geek lately?"."
Say thank you to the poor sysadmin by slashdoting his system.
Je t'aime Stéphanie
By getting drunk at 9am! Wait until they meet Drunken System Administrator. "You lost your password huh? That sucks. Keep guessing!"
Say hello and show your appreciation by paging your sysadmin with "07734" every hour or so.
They have the Internet on computers now?
last Friday in July
... in half the world (EU and US) it is Wednesday. In the other half it is Thursday.
Errr
Or is this just a setup for the duplicate on Friday?
I only ask because:
;-)
2002-07-23 16:41:06 This Friday is System Administrator Appreciation Day! (articles,news) (rejected)
Not that I'm sore or anything
Great idea, actually, might even actually do something to improve professional relationships. I just hope Hallmark doesn't latch onto this like they have Mother and Father's Days... imagine commercials for cheesy cards and flower arrangements and chocolate baskets for SysAdmin Day, managers frantically calling 1-800-FLOWERS to avoid the manufactured faux pas of forgetting the date until the last minute...
System Technical Overseer, North Eastern Division ("STONED") would be more appropriate in our case...
I think we should all remind our employers that administrators are people too and proudly wear our buttons bearing "Have you hugged your geek lately?
Unfortunately, no one would ever see one of these buttons if I wore one, as my company never lets me leave my administrative cave.
Wouldn't the shortest day of the year be more appropriate?
If you don't get the reference, you aren't getting enough User Friendly . Failure to get enough UF in your diet can lead to blindness, so head over there now for a dose.
the AC
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
But system administrators aren't all geeks. They're often Microsoft Certified professionals, which is an entirely different animal!
you're right!
there what the rest of us call Posers.
Its called payday, happens every other friday...
Really? Personally, I find myself far more appreciated every time the servers *do* go down in flames due to a massive (vendor, contractor or intern-caused) issue that nobody else has a clue about. I can feel the appreciatation radiating off my boss when I tell him that I've used my years of experience and contacts in this-or-that organization to save not only the data of the developers, but also his private image collection.
Weirdly, these problems seem to crop up just before quarterly reviews. That's when I really feel appreciated.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
I just told my wife about this and explained that I needed some recognition for the 6 machine LAN that I admin in our home. She laughed at me.
If my wife reacts like that, I'd hate to see your boss.
Ehh, MineSweeper Certified Engineer vs. Microsoft Certified Solitare Engineer, what's the difference?
Really, do we have a CEO appreciaton day for all their hard work?
Yes. Every freaking day they climb into the company jet, or the stock goes up a tiny bit and they are worth millions more, all the catered lunches, just about every freaking moment.
I think, in fact, a CEO non-appreciation day would be quite the event, where a CEO is treated just like any other employee. He has to get his own coffee. Field his own calls. Make his own travel reservations and fly coach to his luxurious golf trip / business meetings.
Really, do we have a CEO appreciaton day for all their hard work?
Good idea. We should. Those chairs don't stay moist on their own, you know.
--
"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Yeah, sure, the people in your company are going to suddenly going to buy you lunch because you got their printer working or reset their password. Sure.
/dev/null
Maybe you'll get some half-dead flowers from the cheap florist on the corner or some inane computer-related doo-dad from Office Depot. ("Look! a mouse cover that looks like, get this: a MOUSE!")
Good God, I want a sysadmin day where users just LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE. It's bad enough that I eat my pathetic convenience store sandwich at my desk while trying to watch a downloaded divx of futurama, but some moron, seeing me with my headphones on and half a sandwich in my hand has got to come over and ask for me to print a document or fix her excel macros or update the company web page. ("Nobody's hit the Investor Relations page in a week, I *think* your updates can wait twenty goddamn minutes...")
But yet, if you send them away, you'll pay later...
The best thing to do is to take quiet revenge. Turn off the proxy server. Randomly delete mails with attached spreadsheets. Write perl scripts to rewrite outgoing mails (s/the/teh/g) and on incoming mails as well (s/Regards,/I find you strangely attractive,/g)
Send a company-wide notice that the router that handles internet browsing will be down from 2:00 to 4:00 pm for an "LRF Support Module" upgrade. (LRF = Little Rubber Feet.) Then take those two hours to download ISO after ISO of whatever the hell you like.
Subscribe everyone in the company to bugtraq - for security's sake...
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When you are asked to push back your vacation a few days, wait until after and let it slip to your boss know that you were supposed to be the Best Man at your brother's wedding, but instead spent that Saturday restoring the backup domain controller.
Nope, you ain't gonna get a day - even if you did, you wouldn't enjoy it. Make your own fun...
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
-- My Weblog.
This appreciation day includes many system administrators:
Computer Administrators
Network Administrators
Internet Administrators (webmaster)
Telephone (PBX) Administrators
Voice-Mail Administrators
Database Administrators (DBA)
UNIX ® Administrators
LINUX Administrators
Lotus Notes ® Administrators
Novell GroupWise ® Administrators
MS Exchange ® Administrators
IBM Mainframe Systems Programmers ("sysprogs")
What about us Tivoli Storage Manager/Veritas Netbackup Admins? where's our love? remember this next time you need your files/SAP/Oracle DB restored
r saso
Every time you read a User Friendly strip, you should be reminded of the goofy daleks wheeling about and chanting "weeee are the superior beeeeings" and threatening everything with the only one tool they have. Tip one over and it's done for.
Taken to its extreme, the single ongoing punchline is: "Ha ha the people who actually do things with computers instead of fetish-fixating on the computers themselves are stupid! Ha ha we control the computers! Ha ha the people who actually do things are stupid again! Ha ha! We still control the computers!"
Being a sysadmin is cool and all. But generally speaking, you're one of the less valuable cogs in the machine which people are more eager to replace if you maintain that mindset.
Says the RIAA: When you EQ, you're stealing bass!
My office celebrates System Admin Appreciation Day.
This week, I got layed off!
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."