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Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day!
saintp writes "In case you forgot, today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. Be sure to appreciate your sysadmin with some sweet schwag, a LOPSA membership, or even some theme cupcakes. Here's to all the sysadmins out there! Now I've got to go fix the mail server...." Update: 07/28 17:44 GMT by H :And remember that you can vote/nominate them for SysAdmin of the Year.
A SAGE membership on the other hand... that I would give
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Last year, SysAdmin day went with hardly a word at my workplace. I heard about it on Slashdot, told it to my boss, and then we would randomly say it to whoever we helped that day, as a joke. Since my boss and I are the only two IT people at our workplace, things tend to get swamped from time to time.
:)
Today, I was sitting at my desk busy with code for a new app when I'm handed a card. Inside are all of my co-worker's signatures, saying thanks for all the hard work that I've done over the past year.
I was utterly baffled, since I had no idea why I was receiving a card. It wasn't until I remembered last year, and came here to see if it was SysAdmin day. When I can get a card from my co-workers before Slashdot can post the holiday, that's an awesome feeling.
I'll probably be grinning ear to ear for the rest of the day.
Not only are the editors idiots about grammar and word definitions but also all the people with mod points!
*sigh*
What next? A story about "synergy" in the IT corporate world?
The Colorado DMV computer system was down STATEWIDE today. I'm guessing there are a few sysadmins working for the DMV who will be lucky if they can get time off for lunch, let along some awesome cupcakes from the staff. ;)
(Okay, thanks Mr. Sysadmin, for making me waste two hours of billable time only to have the computers die on me right as my number was called!)
1. Any free or extra goods, usually given to employees or workers.
I appreciate arguing about slang semantics is a good way to look stupid, but schwag had been free promo gear for at least twenty years prior to the stoner connotation. To avoid confusion, we've taken to referring to the grade formerly known as schwag as *the Imperial*, with all the connotations of cheap liquor upbranding itself with transparent puffery like *her majesty's imprimatur*, etc.
illegitimii non ingravare
That's funny. My brother manages a team of a dozen or so employees for a large Canadian-based networking company (any guesses?). He was telling me that after he went against HR's recommendations, and got burned, he now listens to them. The guy he wanted had the skillset my brother was looking for. HR told him he'd be a bad hire, that he just wouldn't put in the time you want him to. Hired him anyway, and fired him in 2 months and started the whole process over again.
HR has its moments, good and bad.
it's funny how the incompetent LOPSA somehow managed to sponsor Sysadmin Day, do its publicity and handle press contacts, and redesign the sysadminday.com website, all in the first year of LOPSA's existence, when SAGE failed to even co-sponsor the event after promising they would for five years running....
I remember asking SAGE about doing sysadminday stuff in 2002, 2003, 2004.... Always the same answer: "we're trying to make contact for next year...." LOPSA's done it. The proof's in the results, man. Stop your whining already about politics nobody cares about, and show me what SAGE has done for me lately.