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Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day
ArbiterOne writes "The 11th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day is today. Celebrated worldwide on the last Friday of July, this day honors those who fight in the digital trenches to keep the Net alive. OpenDNS offers a way to remind your boss about the holiday, while another blogger shares war stories. The startup Ksplice has created an homage to these heroes in the style of Choose Your Own Adventure." Reader Netbuzz submits a sobering look at the profession from Network World, which notes, "In the past year, [sysadmins'] pay has dropped, and more of their positions are being farmed out to temporary workers."
When we leave the bag of dog poop in their cube, we don't light it?
I think I can handle that.
I need trepanation like I need a hole in the head.
...and you know it, clap your hands!
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
Now get back to work!!
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
I opened a trouble ticket with the text "Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day!"
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
That's like having a day for sasquatch. A Happy System Administrator? Doesn't exist!
It's okay, you've got a couple of hundred years before you need to worry about computers. Watch out for the Jacquard loom, that will be showing up in only 94 years.
My wife told me this holiday was a bunch of garabge. So I told her no more flowers on Administrative Professionals' Day. And then I DDoS'd her server. Haha!
Are you thinking something sugary and hallmarkesque, like the PR that "administrative professional's day"(formerly for appreciation of secretaries, now renamed) gets, or something more along the lines of "We route your packets, we back-up your documents, we administer your databases, we install your drivers. We maintain your uptime while you sleep. Do not... fuck with us. "?
The latter please. The bit actors from the Sopranos are probably looking for some easy ad money.
Having spent many a miserable Christmas, Easter or other so-called "break" tied to a pager or (worse) a dumb terminal over a dialup line, I can only say a sysadmin's lot is not an 'appy one. (Apologies to W.S. Gilbert...) Let's see:
When a user's not engaged in his employment (his employment)
Or maturing his pathetic little plans (little plans)
His capacity for innocent enjoyment (-cent enjoyment)
Is just as great as any honest man's (honest man's)...
I've had a vision of my death and it involves some Windows Server 2008 R2 machines becoming self aware and plotting my death. So unfortunately I trust my coworkers more than my Windows servers.
For what it's worth, my Cisco gear did try to save my life and fight them off.
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
BTW whats the cake for today.
Who are we kidding? The cake is a lie.
"Before criticizing someone, first walk a mile in his shoes. Then, you'll be a mile away... and you'll have his shoes."
Do you really want to be reminding them how easy it would be to replace you with a cron job? :-)
Do you really want to be reminding them how easy it would be to replace you with a cron job? :-)
There's much more to it than that. I'm a cron artist.
... and then they built the supercollider.
.....Do not... fuck with us.
But but but... this is one of the problems I'm trying to *solve*!