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.

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Awesome co-workers

[wuie]

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. :)

from your source

[rodentia]

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.