Submitted by Friday, July 29th, 2005, is the 6th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. “Let’s face it,” the website reads, “System Administrators get no respect 364 days a year. This is the day that all fellow System Administrators across the globe, will be showered with expensive sports cars and large piles of cash in appreciation of their diligent work.”
Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day
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If we want to hear from you we’ll let you out of your cage in the server room.
Sometimes its the little things that really help to motivate. Happy sysadmin day to everyone else out there who live in the trenches..
Does this mean I can go home early? I’d really appreciate it.
If you want to go home early then you are not the REAL sys admin…. As for me i can actually live in the server room and I LOVE it!!! Nothing better than hearing all this machines humming and working, it’s an art, it’s magic.
Lol man, lol.
Oh the irony of the fact that the System Administrator Appreciation Day website is blocked by my work’s websense filter as “personal website” is fantastic.
ironically I had to deal with all sorts of problems today from multipathing failing to a mirrored array breaking down to applications dying without any reasons to general chaos and all on different systens too…. I love my job
Ironically our sys admin has this site blocked so we can’t view it at work. Glad he is on top of these kind of things!
It’s friday, and usually here at fridays at around 5 or 6 pm something bad happens to a server, service, application…. I can tell tomorrow if it was a nice sysadmin day
I hate it when I’m right…a server died… it’s 21:15…what a joy :S
My first voicemail this morning, “Is the Unix working?” thanks HR.
Someone forgot to inform our boss of this special day. Wonder what anonymous person I can get to forward a link today…..
I had balloons and a fruit basket waiting at this client! You guys must not be doing it right.
It’s good to be the king.
Forget system administrator day.
Everyday is secretaries day
I am sure they are grateful themselves for the abudant work provided by MS.
No apreciation day for Software Developers?, we break our back to during the whole year.
🙂
Or the folks staffing the operations centers of the world 24×7? Or the folks maintaining the critical software using those networks?
Not all of those people are “sysadmins” in the classic Unix sense, but they all provide similar services.
Heck, I’d even have appreciated an Application Progammer’s Day when I was providing 24×7 support for a major airline’s core flight ops system.
Sysadmins are valuable, but they’re actually a fairly small subset of the folks who keep the connected world humming…
Respectfully — if you had read the page the article was referring to – you would have found that:
This appreciation day includes many system administrators:
Computer Administrators
Network Administrators
Internet Administrators (webmaster)
Telephone (PBX) Administrators
Voice-Mail Administrators
Database Administrators (DBA)
Email System Administrators
Mainframe Systems Programmers (“sysprogs”)
NetAdmins aren’t left out — no worries!
I thought one of the images in the pictures was especially amusing:
http://www.sysadminday.com/Photos1/pMark_Sewage_P6060002.JPG
Imagine getting that call at 2am!
Ooo! Point taken — I didn’t take the time to go beyond the original article. That’s what I get for skimming during compiles. 🙂
* http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020726&mode=classic
* http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030725&mode=classic
* http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040730&mode=classic
* http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050729&mode=classic
😛
I’m brushing my teeth, and I get a call. “Computers are down, get in here!” Our UPS has an issue, and is dragging down our main wiring rack. Everything, including internal phone communication was down. Happy sysadmin day indeed!
Yes…Happy Admin day! I don’t envy what all of you do, but appreciate it a lot. It seems like quite a thankless task, and I also think that it must be difficult dealing with less than knowledgeable people as well.
So, thank you for a all of your efforts!
sys admins are lazy people, should be happy that they can operate everything from a lazy chair!! they dont deserve respect, not any!! its their job to be lazy!
sys admins are lazy people, should be happy that they can operate everything from a lazy chair!! they dont deserve respect, not any!! its their job to be lazy!
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List up, troll. Lazy? Sitting in a chair?? Let see you pull several bundles of cat 5/e/6, fiber hunderds of meters through:
1) Raised floors
2) Riser ducts
How about racking and stacking hundreds of boxen in a new colo?
What about gettting up out of bed at 2 am for the so called emergency phone call because, someone decides to work late and can not access whatever, when previous an email goes out stating that service won’t be available??? But its for the VP?? Get out of bed and take care of business.
Lazy my arse!!
Screw ’em.
It’s a job. Do it or get out.
Screw you. Know your role and shut your mouth!
I’m sorry, your personal directory seems to have been deleted by mistake
Just had the most miserable, stressful and grim day of system administration ever. No appreciation from our customers in our neck of the woods – a five minute lunch break without the phones ringing would have been nice….