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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."
Ask your boss to stay with you till you leave work.
In soviet Russia, God creates you!
I've been a sysadmin for a while time now, and I've never had one person wish me a happy admin day. It would seem the only people who know about this, happen to be sysadmins. No one has a clue when I mention it. We need more sysadmin day advertising. Someone want to fund a commercial? Lets add it to every calendar world wide. Who's with me?
This is not the penguin you're looking for.
Mailing list posting from one of the sysadmins (Too bad they don't do word wraps).
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/78attendees/current/msg00848.html
Staying up until 7 AM so that bunch of geeks could get decent connectivity in their hotel - kudos.
There was also the nice orange Cat6 cable running through the parking lot, going through windowframes and doorways and ending up at a Catalyst switch taped to a window :)
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.
A System Administrator is different than the Network Administrator. They may be the same individual, but the job is different.
It is the *Network* Administrators that keep the Net alive. Without them, the System Administrator's servers would be just islands.
Hey ! happy sysadmin day to everyone !!
Here in Argentina we are having an after-office to toast to ourselves and our servers !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVA6zCQwE-c :wq!
http://www.diadeladmin.com.ar
The 11th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day is today. Celebrated worldwide on the last Friday of July,
Celebrated by who? I've never heard of it and now that I have, I wish I hadn't.
... I'd like to wish our BOFH overlords a happy sysadmin day.
Have gnu, will travel.
just as soon as i put this sql group back into rotation and i need to doublecheck the logs on the new smtp relays to make sure they arent doing that weird bounce thing they were last night...er...morning right? it was 2ish?
BTW whats the cake for today.
Good people go to bed earlier.
...and you know it, clap your hands!
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
Dear Sysadmin,
We could have a company with no IT department. Oh it wouldn't run nearly as well, because you are an important SUPPORT function. But it would still bumble along somehow. But it doesn't work the other way around. You can't fire everyone else and leave just the IT department, because then there'd be no one for you to support and no reason for you to exist.
So start acting like you understand that you're here to support me, and I'll start appreciating you more.
Then offer to work minimum wage.
Otherwise, consider the extra pay gratitude.
It's 1707 in the UK and I am just about to leave for home. NOW YOU TELL ME - so no cakes and flowers for me then.
AT&ROFLMAO
I'm the sysadmin, among other things.
If something figuratively burns down and I have to fix it in odd hours, I get thanked for it, and I'm able to take paid time off.
That's okay I guess.
And as with all the other named days of recognition, I will disregard it.
It seems nice to have a day for it... people don't care or even notice that System Admins exist until something goes wrong, and then they are simply blamed until it goes right again.
There are two types of people in the world; those who believe there are two types of people, and those who don't.
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!
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!
"In the past year, [sysadmins'] pay has dropped, and more of their positions are being farmed out to temporary workers."
Sysadmins... and everyone else.
That said, cheers to all the sysadmins out there and thanks for all the hard work!
Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
Somebody must have been reading the intranet site at my company because this year people brought in food for the I.T. department. It's on the company event calendar. I'm stuffed. The food and appreciation makes me feel warm and fuzzy on the inside.
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
thanks for making the tubes work, keep it up!
is a SAAD day for all of us.
well if we did have to change it each week then it will not be that hard.
Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day... Humpf!
That's easy... when will we have our own Appreciaton Day, us grumpy admins?
Bollocks!
They like temps as they don need health care to be pay for by the work place and that why worker cost so much in the usa the high cost of health care that over seas that work places do not pay for.
http://xkcd.com/705/
It's nice to have a day you are appreciated. Next time you send that e-mail, save that document or IM your friend please remember all the hard work that goes into those services.
http://www.thetechnologygeek.org
Happy [insert job your paid for doing here] day.
Mamby pamby whiny crap.
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You're welcome.
Yay you. Here's a $%^&ing cookie. Now get the $%^@ back to work and hit your $%&^ing ticket quota!
And are you hiring?
Just like secretary-day, I find this a BS-day.. Why would a sysadmin have a special day? what is so special about him/her that they need a special day? You're getting paid to do the job you were hired for, just like any other person is being paid for the job he/she does and they don't get a special day.. it's just big BS...
Unfortunately my upstream would not appreciate me calling attention to SAAD in such a manner so unless I want a trouble ticket opened on me, I will have to keep it to myself.
And dont forget that the official UK sys admin day site is at http://www.sysadminday.co.uk/
I am confident that it wont get slashdotted.
Mainly because nobody cares about sys admins
Although I must admit that lots in work liked that I took in cakes!
Because you always need a smart fox!
No self-respecting sysadmin would dare sign their boss up for (er) spam, would they?
With such comments as "Most days you suck. Today you suck less." and "Great job at keeping things working most of the time" *sniffle, tries to hold back tears*
(only reason they remember is I have it added to my shared work calendar)
What about Desktop Administrator Appreciation Day, for those who keep your actual machine running?
And not just corporate environments either, although that in itself is as big a job as System Administrators (try and wrangle an Office or Firefox upgrade to 5000 users some day). But also that guy that you call with that stupid question about that thing with that error. Just because he "knows computers". Your personal helpdesk whose time you intrude on?
Yeah. We need a day. And a lie-down.