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Tomorrow is System Administrator Day 2006
ferrgle writes with a reminder of the annual observation of Sysadmin Day. "This celebration's aim is to acknowledge the tireless effort that sysadmins perform every day of the year. It is celebrated on the last Friday of July and more info can be read at sysadminday.com This year there is also a dedicated site for sys admins who are Welsh or who live in Wales (it can be found at sysadminday.org.uk). We hope that all sys admins have a nice day on Friday and get a little less hassle than normal."
Now get back to work, damnit. My email is down again.
Sincerely,
the CEO
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Some SysAdmin at /. is probably just upset and hacked this story onto the front page.
I'll believe it when my SysAdmin comes complaining on monday that we forgot about SysAdmin Day. And even then, I won't believe it.
Hey I actually PREVENTED the building from burning to the ground. The power cord from our primary UPS was defective and was starting to melt. For some reason only my nose could pick up the faint plastic smell, and I was able to track it all the way to the back of the server rack, right to the plug. Damn thing was already burning when I got everything shut down.
Did not get even a single mmumbled "thanks" from my boss. He looked terrified during the event though so I guess that's as good as it's going to get, watching him sweat his ass off.
Yes, it's going to be a S.A.D. day for the rest of us.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
...no one will be at work to thank their Sysadmin, unless they've brought their laptop to the beach and are logged on remotely. Summer hours, people! And mind you, most Sysadmins never see the light of day, so you'd never find them at the beach.
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Oh, I LOVE System Administrator Day! First, I make my way through a bouquet of brightly-colored balloons to my desk, where there's a pot of orchids waiting for me. I open the card and I'm pleasantly surprised to find FOUR Tigers tickets; it was only two last year.
At lunch, they take me to the best place in town. "On us," they say. "Have the prime rib, and don't worry about having a couple glasses of wine. Gina in Human Resources is handling the server today." When we get back to the office, there's a mariachi band and talk of a stripper. "Nothing's getting done today!" exclaims the boss as he whips out a beer-stained toga.
After the cake, it's all, "Hey, Chysn, why don't you cut out early today? And leave your pager with Gina."
--I'm so big, my sig has its own sig.
-- See?
On monday I sent out an email to people I know who work in the industry and who might appreciate celebrating tomorrow. I even talked to my supervisors and while they all agreed it would be nice to celebrate, those higher up the food chain, not to mention the users, would not appreciate giving us a small token of appreciation.
Unfortunately we're not in a position to muck with the system such as putting on special logon scripts or delaying taking care of issues so for us it's just another friday. *sigh*
At least I, and a few others, get free pizza for doing some other work last month so I'll take what I can get.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Remember - help your sysadmin out: download all updates from Microsoft, especially things like Window Genuine Assurance, IE7, and any antivirus programs - some of which will show up when you browse certain web sites.
It will make your sysadmin's life much easier if he doesn't have to do these downloads for you - so don't bother asking them before you do the downloads; that just makes more work for them.
(For the stupid among the moderators - this post is sarcastic humor. Of course I don't mean YOU - I mean the OTHER moderators that are stupid.)
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It's server monkey day, and every geek is celebratin', YAY!!!
That we can have sex tomorrow?
Wait, I forget. This is Slashdot. :-P
the future is but past forgotten
One day, my PC won't open any files. The mouse works, the cursor moves around the screen, but nothing happens when you try to open the file. I call my sysadmin. She arrives, and asks "What seems to be the problem?".
I tell her I can't open anything, even my batch files. Her response "What's a batch file?".
What was once true, is no longer so
Get in early and set every users home page to http://www.sysadminday.com/
It went over great at the last place I worked, right before they fired me.
Funtime Candy Wow! - my plan for eventually conquering Japan.