Poetry For Sysadmins: Shall I Compare Thee To a Lumbering Bear?

itwbennett writes Don't forget that July 25th is Sysadmin Day — a good day to show love to the folks who save your butt again and again when you mess up your computer. Forget the chocolate and flowers, long-time sysadmin Sandra Henry-Stocker has tailored some poems to celebrate these under appreciated, hard-working souls.

Comments

Guess it's not the greatest day.

[KruiserX]

Especially at http://sysadminday.com/ Site is already down.

Re:Guess it's not the greatest day.

[Culture20]

Maybe they should have projected some extra traffic on sysadmin day. I hope their sysadmin didn't take the day off.

Speaking as a sysadmin

[Psiren]

If I find myself fixing someone's computer, then someone else is not doing their job properly. That's why we have (competent) help-desk staff. As a sysadmin I'm far too busy looking after servers, storage and network to worry about your PC. If I'm doing my job properly, you'll never see me.

Re:Speaking as a sysadmin

[niado]

Smaller organisations have not enough servers or users to justify separate staff, so it's not uncommon to see a sysadmin who also does support, or support staff who also admin the couple of servers the office needs.

I would say this situation is not just "not uncommon", but ubiquitous.

I would even say that most people whose job title is some derivative of "system administrator" do at least some end-user or desktop support as part of their day-to-day job duties.

Re:Wrong audience

[UncHellMatt]

And as the near immortal Lazarus Long once said, "A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." The whole "left brain - right brain" concept has been thoroughly disproven BTW. http://www.plosone.org/article...

Beer

[grasshoppa]

Seriously.