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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Payday = Appreciation Day where I work

[lecithin]

A paycheck is all the appreciation that I expect.

Today is Payday.

For some reason, I don't think that this is going to get as big as mother's day.

I know that there is going to be some bitching about how many sysadmins aren't appreciated. Well, you could always work at Mcdonalds.

Re:Payday = Appreciation Day where I work

[mebollocks]

Obviously you're not a sysadmin. Payday is the day employees of a company get paid for their time and labour. All employees have payday. A sysadmin's job however is one of constant battle with people's over-expectation. The cleaners and janitors are more appreciated and get more polite conversation from other employees than sysadmins.

Well yes it's what I asked for but it's not what I wanted!

There is a strange sense of over-entitlement for employees of a company when it comes to IT, this goes for programmers as well as sysadmins.
Of course it will never be as big as mother's day. Mother's are far more deserving of appreciation than any employee.
So those that have arranged a response to the lack of human empathy to IT workers should get a job in McDonalds? Well done, you've solved the problem, congratulations.
If you're a sysadmin, no doubt you're familiar with the phenomenon of 2 different people coming to your desk at the same time and talking over each other, at the same time, about 2 completely different requests, never once acknowledging each other, both completely convinced of their enitilement to whine at you about how their laptop isn't bling enough or their quota is too small and their time is too valuable to clean up.
Nowhere else would such behaviour be tolerated.
Has anyone ever approached their facilties department and asked for a bigger desk because they don't have the time to tidy it?
Sure, you've got some admins that subscribe to the book of bofh, never realising that maintenance of productivity is their sole reason to have a job but these are the exception especially more recently, as management get more clued in to IT.

Ask any employee, Finance, HR, Corporate, if they think they're appreciated enough and the answer will be no. But none of these groups are expected to be available 24*7, train themselves constantly, be on-demand during office hours to all and sundry, behave as if they're responsible for everything that happens within their department, always be patient, take time away from their complex SAN restructure to show how to re-sync a wireless mouse... blah blah... I could go on forever.

This day exists for a reason since 2000.

Re:Payday = Appreciation Day where I work

[ConceptJunkie]

The day I meet an HR department that acts like it is capable of recognizing a human, then I will agree with your statement.

Personally, I believe that if the HR department isn't actively trying to sabotage your job, you're ahead of the game.

Schwag? What about Nugs?

[Anonymous Coward]

Be sure to appreciate your sysadmin with some sweet schwag...

Uh, I am thinking you do not know what that word means. If I gave my sys admin some low grade cannabis, I'd probably be fired.

You see, my sys admin would probably only accept some high quality nugs.

By the way, you forgot to mention that ThinkGeek, Inc. is an OSTG Company and so is Slashdot. Nice self-Slashvertisement there.

404 not found?

[Anonymous Coward]

The requested URL (it/06/07/28/1418242.shtml) was not found.

If you feel like it, mail the url, and where ya came from to pater@slashdot.org.

Guess who's not getting nominated for SysAdmin of the Year...

I can tell...

[__aaclcg7560]

All the system admins are kicking back my help desk tickets and telling me to do their job.

I tried to send my sysadmin a thank you e-card.

[Spazntwich]

But the network was down.

Re:I tried to send my sysadmin a thank you e-card.

[sharkey]

No, it's because we block all that e-card shitware at the network edge. Intestinal parasites dug up from the festering bowels of the Internet do not belong on my network, thank you very much.

Show your sysadmin your appreciation by NOT slumming through the sleaziest shitholes on the 'net using his resources.

Re:I tried to send my sysadmin a thank you e-card.

[14CharUsername]

Show your sysadmin your appreciation by NOT slumming through the sleaziest shitholes on the 'net using his resources.

Well, so much for browsing slashdot today.

A good quote from "The Incredibles"...

[Anonymous Coward]

Helen: Everyone's special, Dash.
Dash: Which is another way of saying no-one is.

Ooooh I knew forgot something ...

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

Thanks for reminding me, I have to fire the sysadmin today

Re:Ooooh I knew forgot something ...

[houghi]

What was you login again?

Re:Ooooh I knew forgot something ...

[Dr Caleb]

For a manager? 'password' or '12345'.

That "not really sure" cupcake...

[Qzukk]

I'm fairly certain that that cupcake is supposed to be the ZoneAlarm traffic meter from the systray.

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. :)

History and Tradition

[stuffduff]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOFH

Re:No love for helpdesk?

[Secrity]

Don't you have airconditioning in India?

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.

Re:The article yesterday wasn't good enough?

[maxwell demon]

And tomorrow we will get an Ask Slashdot: "Yesterday was sysadmin day. What appreciation did you sysadmins receive?" :-)