Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day

An anonymous reader writes "Today is the 8th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. It is always the last Friday in July and is the one day that SysAdmins are supposed to get the respect they deserve to be getting the other 364 days of the year. Today is the day that we wish everyone would considering the daunting tasks, small budgets, and ridiculous timelines that many SysAdmins face all year. Please thank them for everything they do for you and for your business. If you think you have a great SysAdmin today would be the day to nominate them for SysAdmin of the Year. 'The idea for System Administrator Day was inspired by a print ad for a Hewlett-Packard laser jet printer. The ad showed lines of employees bringing gifts for the IT guy who made the purchase. System Administrator Appreciation Day has, over the years, garnered support from many organizations."

Comments

No problem.

[ScentCone]

We just asked the system admin guys to roll out the image we stored from last year's celebration. I mean, why fuss when you have a backup? Of course, we had to have them apply all of the interim patches before we could go live with the party. MAN those guys are grumpy - and this is their Special Day!

oxymoron

[Anonymous Coward]

Happy SAAD.

In other news...

[seven of five]

A hitherto unknown virus has been reportedly bringing down Exchange Server and SQL Server based networks in Europe and Asia...

Re:I Choose Not to Participate

[MontyApollo]

It has been going on for like 8 years and nobody has heard of it so I doubt they are getting much love anyway.

Re:10 simple rules to show your appreciation

[teh_chrizzle]

7. Check to make sure its plugged in.

7.a. plug it back in
7.b. stop fucking unplugging it

Re:I Choose Not to Participate

[Tackhead]

> System Administrators must be much different at other companies because I haven't met one that I've particularly thought deserves a whole freaking day devoted to celebrating them.

"What was your username again?"

> I Choose Not to Participate (Score: 5, Doomed) by eldavojohn (898314)

Ah, there's your username.

*clickity-click*

rm -rf /usr/staff/eldavojohn
mkdir /usr/staff/eldavojohn
wget http://goatse.cx/hello.jpg > /usr/staff/eldavojohn/hello.jpg
chown eldavojohn hello.jpg

"Hello, Human Resources? There's something about one of your employees that you need to know about..."

Re:I Choose Not to Participate

[Anonymous Coward]

Sysadmins are just high tech janitors.

(THAT is flamebait).

bring it bitches, and fix the ftp server, boy.

if the internet is a series of tubes

[circletimessquare]

then system administrators are plumbers 2.0

so as long as you guys can keep your asscrack hidden as you do your work, then you can have your own day

Re:10 simple rules to show your appreciation

[laejoh]

9. Don't open that .exe your nice new stranger friend sent you.

but...

3. If you get the message "Critical System Updates Available", don't ignore it. Take the updates.

You TOLD me so and now it doesn't work!!!

Re:Hooray!

[Notquitecajun]

So YOU'VE been stealing my cake out of the fridge...

Oh, and remember: next Friday...

[markov_chain]

is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want to, go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.

I'd like to

[gelfling]

But I don't speak Hindi.

Huh?

[DoofusOfDeath]

Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day

This is such a stupid celebration. Like anyone has ever seen a Happy System Administrator.

Oh, wait. I see how you meant that. Uhhh... Happy Sys Admin day to you too. (Ah crap - there goes my beeper.) DAMMIT!

Appreciation?

[PPH]

If it wasn't for all of these #$(&%% users, we'd have a really smooth running operation here!

Re:I Choose Not to Participate

[clang_jangle]

So call it 'Tech Support' day or whatever instead of limiting the name of the day to a subset of the job!

That does seem appropriate, I vote for "geek apprciation day". Shoot, we all deserve it -- now if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean up some luser's mess. Funny how it feels like just another day...

Heh - missed something else too:

[Penguinisto]

rm -rf /usr/staff/eldavojohn
mkdir /usr/staff/eldavojohn
wget http://goatse.cx/hello.jpg > /usr/staff/eldavojohn/hello.jpg
chown eldavojohn hello.jpg

"Hello, Human Resources? There's something about one of your employees that you need to know about..."

and they look at the file to see it's just the output of wget.

...and that /home/eldavojohn is still just fine and chock-full of normal stuff.

I mean, cripes, can we at least avoid tempting fate @ the server by not mucking around in /usr here?

Here... I'll fix it for 'im:

mkdir -p /home/eldavojohn/\!special cd /home/eldavojohn wget -m -nH http://barnyardlovers.com/pix/?N=D && chown -R eldavojohn:users /home/eldavojohn/\!special echo "Dear Barnyard Lovers \n I'm having trouble renewing my subscription for next year. Please reply and tell me how I can change my credit card info. \n Thank you,\n eldavojohn" | mail -s "subscription renewal trouble, plz help" HR_Droid@company.com

I mean, sheesh...

(okay, okay - I'll go back to work now...)

/P

Re:Another one?

[DamnStupidElf]

Really now, does every profession need it's own appreciation day?

Yes. I call mine Pay Day. It comes 26 times a year.

Re:I Choose Not to Participate

[It'sYerMam]

In the UK, the article is listed as being posted at 5:01 PM. I guess the love to sysadmins doesn't extend to actually showing it - you have to internally acknowledge it, after you get home - in the UK, anyway.

Re:I Choose Not to Participate

[darkuncle]

anybody who claims to be an admin and yet does not have an inherent frustration towards users is either lying, stoned or inexperienced.