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Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day!
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on Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:46 PM
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saintp writes "In case you forgot, today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. Be sure to appreciate your sysadmin with some sweet schwag, a LOPSA membership, or even some theme cupcakes. Here's to all the sysadmins out there! Now I've got to go fix the mail server...." Update: 07/28 17:44 GMT by H :And remember that you can vote/nominate them for SysAdmin of the Year.
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Tomorrow is System Administrator Day 2006 83 comments
ferrgle writes with a reminder of the annual observation of Sysadmin Day. "This celebration's aim is to acknowledge the tireless effort that sysadmins perform every day of the year. It is celebrated on the last Friday of July and more info can be read at sysadminday.com This year there is also a dedicated site for sys admins who are Welsh or who live in Wales (it can be found at sysadminday.org.uk). We hope that all sys admins have a nice day on Friday and get a little less hassle than normal."
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Payday = Appreciation Day where I work (Score:5, Insightful)
Today is Payday.
For some reason, I don't think that this is going to get as big as mother's day.
I know that there is going to be some bitching about how many sysadmins aren't appreciated. Well, you could always work at Mcdonalds.
Re:Payday = Appreciation Day where I work (Score:3, Insightful)
If the worth of your life is a paycheck, then I'm sure you're pleased with yourself, and I'm happy for you.
Personally, I believe that I shouldn't have to negotiate with HR for "perks" like "treat me like the human I am".
Re:Payday = Appreciation Day where I work (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:Payday = Appreciation Day where I work (Score:5, Insightful)
Personally, I believe that if the HR department isn't actively trying to sabotage your job, you're ahead of the game.
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Re:Payday = Appreciation Day where I work (Score:3, Interesting)
HR has its moments, good and bad.
Re:Payday = Appreciation Day where I work (Score:5, Insightful)
There is a strange sense of over-entitlement for employees of a company when it comes to IT, this goes for programmers as well as sysadmins.
Of course it will never be as big as mother's day. Mother's are far more deserving of appreciation than any employee.
So those that have arranged a response to the lack of human empathy to IT workers should get a job in McDonalds? Well done, you've solved the problem, congratulations.
If you're a sysadmin, no doubt you're familiar with the phenomenon of 2 different people coming to your desk at the same time and talking over each other, at the same time, about 2 completely different requests, never once acknowledging each other, both completely convinced of their enitilement to whine at you about how their laptop isn't bling enough or their quota is too small and their time is too valuable to clean up.
Nowhere else would such behaviour be tolerated.
Has anyone ever approached their facilties department and asked for a bigger desk because they don't have the time to tidy it?
Sure, you've got some admins that subscribe to the book of bofh, never realising that maintenance of productivity is their sole reason to have a job but these are the exception especially more recently, as management get more clued in to IT.
Ask any employee, Finance, HR, Corporate, if they think they're appreciated enough and the answer will be no. But none of these groups are expected to be available 24*7, train themselves constantly, be on-demand during office hours to all and sundry, behave as if they're responsible for everything that happens within their department, always be patient, take time away from their complex SAN restructure to show how to re-sync a wireless mouse... blah blah... I could go on forever.
This day exists for a reason since 2000.Parent
Schwag? What about Nugs? (Score:4, Funny)
You see, my sys admin would probably only accept some high quality nugs [urbandictionary.com].
By the way, you forgot to mention that ThinkGeek, Inc. is an OSTG Company and so is Slashdot. Nice self-Slashvertisement there.
Re:Schwag? What about Nugs? (Score:3, Insightful)
from your source (Score:5, Interesting)
I appreciate arguing about slang semantics is a good way to look stupid, but schwag had been free promo gear for at least twenty years prior to the stoner connotation. To avoid confusion, we've taken to referring to the grade formerly known as schwag as *the Imperial*, with all the connotations of cheap liquor upbranding itself with transparent puffery like *her majesty's imprimatur*, etc.
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Moderators Are Irresponsible (Score:2, Interesting)
*sigh*
What next? A story about "synergy" in the IT corporate world?
Re:Moderators Are Irresponsible (Score:2)
404 not found? (Score:5, Funny)
If you feel like it, mail the url, and where ya came from to pater@slashdot.org.
Guess who's not getting nominated for SysAdmin of the Year...
I can tell... (Score:5, Funny)
I tried to send my sysadmin a thank you e-card. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I tried to send my sysadmin a thank you e-card. (Score:5, Insightful)
Show your sysadmin your appreciation by NOT slumming through the sleaziest shitholes on the 'net using his resources.
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Re:I tried to send my sysadmin a thank you e-card. (Score:5, Funny)
Well, so much for browsing slashdot today.
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You haven't seen Apple's iCards, have you? (Score:3, Informative)
They're on the
Re:I tried to send my sysadmin a thank you e-card. (Score:2)
A good quote from "The Incredibles"... (Score:5, Insightful)
Dash: Which is another way of saying no-one is.
Making nobody special (Score:4, Funny)
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My office remembered! (Score:2)
Hard to Find a Good SysAdmin (Score:2, Insightful)
Alas, we suffer on.
Peace O
Ooooh I knew forgot something ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ooooh I knew forgot something ... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Ooooh I knew forgot something ... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Ooooh I knew forgot something ... (Score:3, Funny)
I wouldn't give a LOSA membership if it were free (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:I wouldn't give a LOSA membership if it were fr (Score:2)
That "not really sure" cupcake... (Score:5, Informative)
Awesome co-workers (Score:5, Interesting)
Today, I was sitting at my desk busy with code for a new app when I'm handed a card. Inside are all of my co-worker's signatures, saying thanks for all the hard work that I've done over the past year.
I was utterly baffled, since I had no idea why I was receiving a card. It wasn't until I remembered last year, and came here to see if it was SysAdmin day. When I can get a card from my co-workers before Slashdot can post the holiday, that's an awesome feeling.
I'll probably be grinning ear to ear for the rest of the day.
Re:Awesome co-workers (Score:2, Funny)
Obligatory: That's because they already saw it on Digg!
Reward Your IT With Spam (Score:2)
I decided to flip over to the rules section to see if they would respect privacy or at least attempt to lie to me. (It's the little things that count)
So, if you don't like your IT staff that much... go sign em' up. Reward them with 40 or 50 more personalized junk mailings!
W00t (Score:2)
No, I'm not kidding, finalized the deal last night. Ironic, eh?
Re:W00t (Score:3, Informative)
History and Tradition (Score:5, Informative)
Music for Celebrating Sysadmin Day (Score:2)
Be sure to leave something nice on Ted's Desk (Score:2)
To quote Jimmy Fallon (Score:4, Funny)
You can call me... Larry. (Score:2)
And when can we expect to see a... (Score:2, Funny)
Site Access Policies (Score:2, Funny)
No love for helpdesk? (Score:2, Insightful)
We are the gatekeepers. We're on the front lines, sweating it with our phone headsets and standard issue network access. Meanwhile the big wig admins kick back in their air conditioned servers rooms.
Re:No love for helpdesk? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:No love for helpdesk? (Score:2)
I was, when I was on the phones, for 3 years. Now I'm a sysadmin, and have been for 4 years.
You can get out! There is hope!
I know some sysadmisn who aren't getting thanks... (Score:2, Interesting)
We don't cotton to their type around here... (Score:3, Funny)
We hung our sysadmin by his ankles from the roof of our tallest building, and told him that we'd very much appreciate it if our network would have somewhat more network connectivity than a 300 baud modem.
Oh, and a specially hired dominatrix worked him over for making us use Outlook.
Ah, good times. :)
Four Days Late. 24/7 would have been better. (Score:3, Funny)
I get the whole day off! (Score:3, Insightful)
You've got it backwards (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:The article yesterday wasn't good enough? (Score:4, Funny)
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