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Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day

Posted by samzenpus on from the thanks-for-the-uptime dept.

alphadogg writes "It's the last Friday in July. Have you hugged your system administrators today? Bought a cake? Picked up the tab for lunch? There's still time to show your thanks for the unsung heroes who keep corporate desktops, servers and networks running. Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day, an annual event thought up by IT pro Ted Kekatos. A company picnic and an old HP advertisement sparked the idea for the first SysAdmin Day, now in its 12th year."

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  1. Re:Happy System Administrator Day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was fucking in last night at 00:15 when we lost power. And I was here until 03:30 when power had been back on for an hour and I brought the servers up in their proper order. I then slept in a hotel room on my own dime, because I was back in at 07:20 today.

    I'll work until 17:30 today. We've had so many storms in the area that I have gotten 7 hours or less sleep every night for the past two weeks. This means I give up my hobbies on the weekend, as I am too fucking tired to compete safely.

    But does anyone give a rats ass about this? No. They are pissed off that I missed the first 20 minutes of a company wide meeting because I was monitoring circuits that had wet Smartjacks in order to make sure that the branches stay up.

    Fuck system admin day. I'm going back to school.

  2. Re:Do you know by harp2812 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do you know how to speak without swearing?

    Have you *met* a SysAdmin?

    --
    I've found that nurturing one's Zen nature is vital to dealing with technology. Violence is pretty damn useful too.