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Sysadmin Day. Yay.
Izeickl writes "The BBC is running an article about sysadmin day. One admin is quoted saying, 'We are unappreciated and no-one knows what we do for 364 days of the year.' Apparently even the online greeting cards are getting in on the action check out 123Greetings.com and put a smile on that cranky admins face! The starter of this day also has a page here." Well, most competent sysadmins probably have electronic greeting cards blocked at the router, but I suppose it's the thought that counts... Jeremy Sieminski submits a Mouse Pad Couch as the appropriate place for a sysadmin to rest his weary, uh, wrists. And of course if you've never read the BOFH stories, you're missing out.
You'll get a card when you unlock my account!
You bastard!
"I send you this electronic greeting card in order to have your advice."
Programmer: "Server's down!"
Sysadmin: "Thanks, server's down to you too!"
=== "Some people see the glass as half-empty. Others see it as half-full. I see the glass as too big." -G. Carlin.
Hmm.. *clickity click* You've got plenty of disk space, now... Happy BOFH day!
Moderation: Put your hand inside the puppet head!
So unappreciated...
Admiration? Adoration? Acknowledgement? A sysadmin craves not these things.
If those are the things you want, J Crew Boy, you are in the *wrong* line of work.
The tradeoff of getting to do your thing with others that are like minded (or solo) in an enviornment that is very much your own and on one bothers you is that no one knows what you do (or cares..let's face it) until it's broken and they run at you like they are on fire in trade for a job where you get to do something you are good at, get paid for, and get to play with new toys all the time.
Appreciate me by not sending 100M email attachments to distribution lists. That'll do.
Only has to work 1 day a year to make sure everything is still working from the year before. =] Of course, if they do their job too well, they'll be considered as not needed, since nobody will notice it.
The 1 day out of the year they are noticed is the day something beyond their control breaks (hardware failure, etc).
What?
Whenever I felt unappreciated as a sysadmin, I would set up my old rocking chair in the server room. After a peaceful afternoon spent in the gentle breeze of server fans, and with a few critical cables running underneath my chair as I eased back and forth, everyone in the building knew what I did...
Now if you're a bad sysadmin, you're always fixing things up and braking other things at the same time so you're always doing overtime so eventually your boss hire people to help you, you become those people manager's so you let them fix all the stuff you broke and read slashdot all day in the mean time, but with a hiher pay and job security.
Je t'aime Stéphanie
Your local sysadmin would love for you to ;-)
add their email addy to an online greeting card's
database!
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- Been the emotional punching bag for angry corporate users calling the technical support center here when they screwed up the MS Exchange server because their MCSE courses apparently didn't cover making it able to go a month without corrupting it's database.
- Been the person people complain about the MS Proxy server setup which routinely times out when going to any site outside the company thanks to the fact that the server admins keep fighting over who knows how to set it up properly.
- Been the person who gets all the fallout telephone calls from angry remote Citrix dial-up users, all because the network admin decided one night to change everything over to DHCP, versus the old static IPs, along with moving to a different IP class, causing every remote user to need their network settings changed.
- Been the person who has all the system administrator's personal telephones forwarded to him when they feel "overburdoned" because I'm just lowly tech support, and can therefore answer all their calls for them.
NoI run to the flames when others flee.
I slay Cisco, RAID and PowerPoint enemies.
I retreat in darkness until called again.
You need not know my name, for I am legion...
Yes, you have chosen a career that carries less esteem than the guy who holds up the "SLOW" sign in construction zones. What you will be doing is less understood than if you became a Tarot Card reader, and less appreciated than a digital rectal examination. You will be expected to be everywhere at once, but when you arrive your presence will be unwelcome. Things you will never see again: knowledgeable assistants, clueful cow-orkers, pay raises, vacations, your wife, and your kids. Well actually, they're not really your kids... remember that overseas Peoplesoft rollout three summers ago and how you were wondering why your boss didn't go with you?
Look, it's not too late to change majors and embark on the path to a respectful profession like being a corporate attorney for the MPAA or RIAA.
Dude, yellow on a dark red background? They should forget about putting lasers on jets and just send people that link if they need to blind someone...
Here. Here's a song for you. Now quit whining!
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http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2625/262591
wes
"Immature artists borrow. Mature artists steal."
Wes Borg
Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie have recorded The System Administrator Song as a tribute for SysAdmin day. If you haven't heard of Three Dead Trolls yet, check out the rest of their music when you're done with this one for Every OS Sucks, The Internet Helpdesk Song and others.
and that's good enough for this sysadmin. Skip the cards, and buy me a pint instead ;)
I'd have a personalized plate on my car, but "toxic bachelor" won't fit into 7 letters.
or does that mouse pad couch seem to be in a room that looks just like a jail cell? I wonder how much money we could save if we strung a DSL connection to the state prison...hmmmm....Our expensive sysadmins days are numbered.
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
... and this one time, at band camp ...
vodka, straight up, thank you!
True appreciation would be all users bringing you some overpriced coffee drink coated with sugar and dairy products, setting them on your desk, not say a word, not expecting you to smile or even look up, and then every one of them would turn off their computers and leave for the day. Truly bliss. :)
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Subject: System Admin appreciation day
Just a quick note to say how much I appreciate all the great
things you all do!!!
You make it a pleasure to work here and are extremely talented at what
you do!
My hats off to you!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
In fact, why don't you take tomorrow off!!
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Remind me to shoot the guy who scheduled SysAdmin day on a Friday.
Great, so they can go home after struggling with microsoft products all day to struggling with microsoft products all evening
Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy (SNL) "He'll fix your computer, then he's gonna make fun of you..."