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.

Who cares

[ximenes]

I have worked as a systems administrator my entire professional career (12 years or so), and I couldn't care less about this day.

What is the point of these artificial job-appreciation-days? If someone appreciates me or my work, I would prefer to hear it when they feel like it rather than get a mug or something lame (not that I ever have, no one is aware of this momentous day anywhere I've ever worked, thank god!). Whatever happened to honest sentiment?

Re:I Choose Not to Participate

[SlamMan]

Probably because at any place that's not an IT company (and under a thousand people), all of those jobs are the same 1-5 guys.

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..."

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.

Re:I Choose Not to Participate

[eneville]

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.
you should try this:
wget -O http://goatse.cx/hello.jpg > hello.jpg

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:I Choose Not to Participate

[TheRaven64]

If I drop a drink on the floor, the fucking janitor will do his job, and I won't thank him for it. I think this says more about you than it does about the grandparent. The janitor may be more replaceable than you (or they may not, after all, there are lots of ACs), but they're still human, and a little respect does a lot to improve the quality of their working environment, which in turn improves that of everyone else who works there.

Re:I Choose Not to Participate

[ender-]

Excuse me? If I drop a drink on the floor, the fucking janitor will do his job, and I won't thank him for it. Man, you're not an Anonymous Coward. You're an Anonymous Jackass troll. Obviously you were never taught respect or manners.

When I'm working late, and the janitor comes in to my cube to empty my trash, I turn around and say, "Thank you," because he's working late, doing a job that nobody else wants to do, and making sure I can get my job done without having to waste time taking out the trash.

Learn to have a little appreciation for the people who do the things you don't want to do for yourself, eh?