How about a Help Desk Appreciation day?
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Sysadmin Day. Yay.
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Granted, Sysadmins do a hell of a lot, and deservingly should have their own day. But most of you guys are in the background, making sure everything runs smoothly (and when they don't, my sympathies.) However, no one appreciates the Help Desk guy. NO ONE. Users only call because something is wrong. If it's not something that we can solve (and believe me, we handle a ton of issues that you'll never see), we have to go to the next level (Sysadmins in my company.) Sysadmins don't appreciate us because we've always bothering them with problems. We wouldn't be bothering you if they weren't legitimate!
We are expected to always answer the phone with a smile since we're the "happy shiny face of IT." We're also the first ones that employees (execs to mail boys) scream at when something isn't working. Whether it's an ID10T error or a legitimate system problem. We're the ones who have to answer the phones from half the company when one person opens a virus.
We are universally loathed. We are paid crap.
Come to think of it, I don't want a Help Desk Appreciation Day, I just want a hug.
I think there are many more interesting things that NASA could do with the amount of money than send a fragile tricorder and hope it survives the trip to Pluto (remember, they failed TWICE last year with Mars and that's barely a hop compared to Pluto.) Also, I firmly believe that there will probably be some new type of faster, and less expensive space propulsion (can we say warp drive?) invented in the time it would take to get a probe to Pluto. Focus the money on that instead.
Also, I remember back nearly 15 years ago Planet X, the tenth planet. Does anyone else remember that? And what ever happened to it? Was it determined to be part of the Kuiper Belt? Just wondering if that was fact or if I'm having an acid flashback....
I'm not tryin gto say that the sole purpose of the genome project whas to produce thought in a beaker, I'm just saying that once the genome has been broken down, I'm sure one of the multitude of things that they will do to it will be trying to generate thoughts in beakers.
OK, I've never been religious. Ever. BUT, this whole genome project makes me think back to why science started. Science came about because people asked the enigmatic question "Why?" Scientists originally were people who were religious and were mainly looking to discover "God's plan." What happened was that they could not find God in their studies. Science then took the turn of trying to find out "Why?" without God in the picture. That's a very watered down history of science but with this genome project, I'm thinking that scientists may finally discover God. I've always found it amazing that every thought I've ever had is the result of chemical interactions going on in my brain. Trying to conceive that thought itself may one day be brought about in a lab has always disturbed me. With the genome project, what if they CAN'T figure out how to produce thoughts in the lab. They may discover that there is no other explanation beyond the supernatural. I consider myself a huge skeptic, but I also consider myself an agnostic. I don't know if there is a God nor do I claim to know, but I've an open enough mind that I'm willing to entertain many different theories. Just throwing out some mental candy for everyone.
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Granted, Sysadmins do a hell of a lot, and deservingly should have their own day. But most of you guys are in the background, making sure everything runs smoothly (and when they don't, my sympathies.) However, no one appreciates the Help Desk guy. NO ONE. Users only call because something is wrong. If it's not something that we can solve (and believe me, we handle a ton of issues that you'll never see), we have to go to the next level (Sysadmins in my company.) Sysadmins don't appreciate us because we've always bothering them with problems. We wouldn't be bothering you if they weren't legitimate!
We are expected to always answer the phone with a smile since we're the "happy shiny face of IT." We're also the first ones that employees (execs to mail boys) scream at when something isn't working. Whether it's an ID10T error or a legitimate system problem. We're the ones who have to answer the phones from half the company when one person opens a virus.
We are universally loathed. We are paid crap.
Come to think of it, I don't want a Help Desk Appreciation Day, I just want a hug.
I think there are many more interesting things that NASA could do with the amount of money than send a fragile tricorder and hope it survives the trip to Pluto (remember, they failed TWICE last year with Mars and that's barely a hop compared to Pluto.) Also, I firmly believe that there will probably be some new type of faster, and less expensive space propulsion (can we say warp drive?) invented in the time it would take to get a probe to Pluto. Focus the money on that instead. Also, I remember back nearly 15 years ago Planet X, the tenth planet. Does anyone else remember that? And what ever happened to it? Was it determined to be part of the Kuiper Belt? Just wondering if that was fact or if I'm having an acid flashback....
I'm not tryin gto say that the sole purpose of the genome project whas to produce thought in a beaker, I'm just saying that once the genome has been broken down, I'm sure one of the multitude of things that they will do to it will be trying to generate thoughts in beakers.
OK, I've never been religious. Ever. BUT, this whole genome project makes me think back to why science started. Science came about because people asked the enigmatic question "Why?" Scientists originally were people who were religious and were mainly looking to discover "God's plan." What happened was that they could not find God in their studies. Science then took the turn of trying to find out "Why?" without God in the picture. That's a very watered down history of science but with this genome project, I'm thinking that scientists may finally discover God. I've always found it amazing that every thought I've ever had is the result of chemical interactions going on in my brain. Trying to conceive that thought itself may one day be brought about in a lab has always disturbed me. With the genome project, what if they CAN'T figure out how to produce thoughts in the lab. They may discover that there is no other explanation beyond the supernatural. I consider myself a huge skeptic, but I also consider myself an agnostic. I don't know if there is a God nor do I claim to know, but I've an open enough mind that I'm willing to entertain many different theories. Just throwing out some mental candy for everyone.