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

Re:I Choose Not to Participate

[Anonymous Coward]

Flamebait, sure.

And in response, from all sysadmins everywhere, to get something off my chest as well, fuck you. Fuck you and every asshole like you.

Oooh, that felt good.

Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you need an "appreciation day" for whatever your job is, chances are very good your job really isn't that special. You don't see a "Surgeon Appreciation" day, do you?

All in all, the day is a method of trying to state that you are somehow irreplaceable or special in that not just anyone can do your job. The irony is that if you need to create a special day to do this, you probably are replaceable and anyone could realistically do your job.

Re:I Choose Not to Participate

[geekoid]

"Hello Mike? get the boys together, there is someone we need to talk to..."

I'll have a new job before you are even out of the hospital.

You fuck with the wrong person, you may find a gun in your mouth.