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System Administrator Appreciation Day
rmadmin writes "Yes, it's that time of year again! Today is the 5th annual Systems Administrator Appreciation Day! Show us admin's how much you love us. (Otherwise we may just walk out, It's been a long day) Happy Systems Administrator Day!" If any of the OSTG netops staff are reading this, thanks again for all your help in recent weeks.
Only unimportant jobs such as secretaries and the like get their own "appreciation days".
If I were a sysadmin, I'd be insulted.
For a couple years now I've been one of two de-facto sysadmins in a small operation, and I've definitely come to appreciate sysadmins much more than I did before.
It's hard work and the vast majority of it is tedious. Of course a really good sysadmin doesn't have to do much of anything on a day-to-day basis (having scripted everything up nicely), but when something tricky needs doing it's soooo much better to have a real admin on hand to spend the day doing it.
Next time I have a sysadmin who's not me, I'm definitely buying him/her a t-shirt and a beer on S.A.A.D.
(...though it would be nice to have a happier acronym)
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Thanking your admin is nice and all, but baking cookies won't take away from training your underpaid Indian replacement.
Admin Appreciation Day is a pat on the shoulder while someone is getting ready to put a knife in your back.
Guinness? ;)
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Romulan Ale or Aldeberan Whiskey
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Just like "Administrator's Day", "Bring your daughter to work day", "Bring your son to work day".
Someone is just coming up with stupid holidays so people buy stupid things. Where's the calendar that points out every day of the year as "Something special day". I'm sure tomorrow is "Good User Day" where sys admins give prizes to the best users, and then it will be "Taxi Cab Driver Day" where you should give the cab drivers extra tip.
Why do we have the need to create these stupid "fake holidays?"
There used to be a reson for these days. I think it used to be awareness, but when every day became another thing you should be aware of, it got tedious, and then all these stupid ones came about.
How about people just do their job and stop thinking that they are the saviour of the world. The fact that you are getting paid is your appreciation.
"Time is long and life is short, so begin to live while you still can." -EV
Thanks... for confusing the fact that you have full access to my PC for having some kind of authority over me. Thanks... for treating my software development team with the same disdain and condescension as you treat the temp secretary who asks where the 'Any' key is. Thanks... for copping a major attitude... it's probably justified, I mean, I only have a BS and MS in CompSci and 12 years experience and you have some MSSTFU certification that probably took about 12 weeks.
Thanks.
This kind of once a year on the calendar day for appreciation is not an appropriate way of recognition.
This day is now just like other obligatory days like: Mother's day, then Father's day (why is he left out), and even the other ones like the Office Admin day.
If it does not come sincere from the person doing it, then it is not that great. The only advantage I see is that it reminds those who are nice and appreciative, but forgetful.
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You forgot a biggie: 36. When a supplier, be it of bandwidth, hardware, printer paper, etc. screws up, please get mad at us personally. We need the inspiration of your berating in order to effectively berate said supplier, and they need our berating because they love it when customers who 50% of the time ask for the wrong thing and get it, get even more upset the other 50% of the time when they're given what they actually needed in the first place.
The difference is, with Windows, you spend most of your time supporting the computer. With Linux, you spend most of your time supporting the user. Linux isn't a magic bullet which will melt away all your support problems! The user must be knowledgeable, or else you'll just waste even more time than Windows was already wasting.
While I understand your complaint against so-called "Hallmark Holidays" (so named because they are just an excuse to buy a Hallmark brand card) I think sysadmins really do deserve a day like this. By and large, most people's interaction with syadmins is to complain that something isn't working. No one ever walks up to a sysadmin and says "Hey, everything is working great today! Thanks for all you do!" (unless things have recently NOT been good). In this respect, sysadmins are very much like doctors or psychotherapists in that they have to deal with fixing things when the chips are down. These health workers, however, usually get lots of vacation time and very generous salaries to compensate for their stressful jobs -- something sysadmins typically do not enjoy.
Not only are sysadmins taken for granted but unlike others in that situation (e.g., secretaries) their job is one where people are constantly complaining to them. This makes them very unique and very underappreciated. I don't think it's too much to ask that for one day out of the year that people interact with their sysadmins in a positive manner.
GMD
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7. When an IT person is eating lunch at his desk, walk right in and spill your guts right out. We exist only to serve.
I always presume that if someone is at their desk they're working and therefore available for work-related discussions. If they want to eat lunch in peace, they simply have to go to the break room, outside, whatever.
As a corollary to this rule, if someone does eat lunch at their desk regularly, I will wait until they start eating to go and ask them questions. This is to avenge the awful smells they spread around the office, distracting those of us who are trying to get some work done.
If you were able to crash his server, it sounds like he wasn't doing his job very well. Maybe he's the one who should be banned.
I'd actually feel that appreciating them one day out of the year is a step in the right direction.
No, it isn't. It's hypocritical BS. If I were a sysadmin, I'd punch you in the face for letting me work my ass off and then thinking a lousy, phony "appreciation day" means anything to me.
If you want to appreciate them, give them more money, more responsibility (not as in 24/7 support) and all the other goodies people in sales and management get when they perform good.
I love my Sysadmins, but what about us Network Admins. We keep the backbone of the company running, and do we get any thanks.
Of course not.
It really is a shame the only ones who even know about (let alone recognize) system administrators day, are the system administrators.
Yeah.
We're moving the office today. I expect to not leave tonight.
I expect to not see any overtime for working Friday and Saturday of a long weekend.
One of our executives just unleashed mydoom on their contact list.
I expect to have to get us delisted from a few XBLs come Tuesday.
I have been working here a year, gone through 2 managers. No review.
Ah, well. Someone will have a cold beer for me somewhere. Even better, someone will have a cold beer and good company waiting for me somewhere...
Happy Sysadmin Appreciation Day.
A week's work down the drain?
So are you still a cheerleader for the anti-daily-backup crowd?
Backup early. Backup often. Don't cut corners unless your time is worth nothing.
Why would sysadmins want a special day all to themselves? Do we need to have a "Programmer Appreciation Day" too?
Where's "Janitor Appreciation Day"? If there is anyone that is underappreciated in this world it's them (among others, of course).
Self-glorification is an ugly thing.
What's with the /*? I'm not wasting two whole keystrokes on this fellow.
How about /incriminating/kittyporn ~$LUSER
# tar xf
# mail -s "Look what I found!" ratOnYourCoworkers@fbi.gov <<EOF
One of our users, $LUSER, needs a good talking to.
sincerely, $BOFH
.
<<EOF
#
This is not my sandwich.