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Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day
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."
My wife always comes to me when the computers act up. I think I can leverage this into a blowjob.
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.
If sysadmins were more consistently good, we wouldn't need to manufacture a day to "appreciate" them. One of the reasons sysadmins are under appreciated is because a non-trivial percentage of them aren't worth spit. Sure, I've worked with some incredible admins and appreciated every second of their time. But I've worked with some pretty clueless idiots who had no business whatsoever coming anywhere near a computer. Nobody remembers the good admins because everything just works and no one needs to call them. Unfortunately, that means that the only admins you really do remember are the ones who couldn't figure out how to pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel. And that is what is really not fair for the good admins and why they are under appreciated.
So, for all the good admins out there, kudos to you. You should be appreciated on more than just one day arbitrarily chosen out of the year. For the rest, well, mother always said if you didn't have anything nice to say don't say anything. I don't have anything to say to you.
But seriously guys ... it's been seven years now ... can I finally have root access now?
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.
Money IS happiness. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to either get money from you, or trying to feel good about their current financial predicament.
It sin't the only thing that bring happiness, but to say it doesn't is pretty delusional.
If he is unhappy about his hours why would he be happy working the hours elsewhere?
"Seriously: a licensed nurse who knows technology will stand out in the applicant pool, because hospitals need them desperately with the move to Electronic Medical Records."
I know. I know several IT people who went into nursing, and I was in IT in the medical industry. Nursing in no way solves what THIS poster is talking about.
I will point out, that it may be a mistake for have IT experienced nurses stand out in the application pool. From what I here they end up getting pulled into all kinds of computer issues instead of doing nursing because calling IT is a pain in the ass. Hire nurse to nurse, hire IT guys to deliver high quality IT services for the nurse.
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