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Sysadmin Day 2017: Still time to get the beers in
It's that time of year again, dear readers: it's Sysadmin Day 2017. Today is that one day a year where employers and coworkers are expected to give a token acknowledgement of the trials and tribulations of their overworked IT staffs and usually fail to do so. We here at The Register, however, have not forgotten you. Today's …
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Friday 28th July 2017 11:46 GMT Ben1892
Too late, you won't get many replies now, it's after 12pm and there's a P1 incident in the Dog and Duck across the road that's occupying all attention.
Seriously, I'm sitting in an empty office ( holiday silly-season) and all is well, there is no better time to hit the local boozer - just there'll be nobody there either :)
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Friday 28th July 2017 15:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
Sitting here waiting for the Friday afternoon grenade to arrive...
...knowing I'll be working (unpaid, natch) 8h / day over the weekend -- when I'm not washing and ironing my fucking uniform for the week ahead -- even if Wikileaks or ShadowBrokers decide not to wreck the weekend in the few hours,.. this gave me a warm glow:
A little bit of recognition from others can make the world seem less dark. Knowing that we're appreciated and feeling like we're useful and helpful can keep us grounded. But as important as external validation is, we all need a little self love from time to time.
Don't be afraid to take a few moments for yourself. Make this year's sysadmin day an excuse to look after your own needs, indulge yourself, or give yourself permission to do something you really want.
Yes, there's nothing quite like the fulfillment, consolation and joie de vivre that a quick sordid Cheesman brings to make up for the rest of what others laughingly call my life*. Luckily inflation's now eroded my pay to the point I can't afford to do anything more exciting that read a book and read some research whitepapers over a couple of bottles of beer in the evening anyway, so what else could I do?
Never mind, you say, it's early days in your career, you'll get promotion and a rise some day...
Reader, I am almost 50.
* what I call it isn't suitable for a family publication like El Reg
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Friday 28th July 2017 15:50 GMT Nolveys
Re: Sitting here waiting for the Friday afternoon grenade to arrive...
A little bit of recognition from others can make the world seem less dark.
When I do an extra good job they spit on me with regular spit instead of the spit you have to hack up.
Logz.io says 70% of IT workers are risking burnout.
I'm lucky to be in the 30%. I burnt out about 10 years ago.
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Friday 28th July 2017 17:27 GMT Robert Moore
Re: Seriously?
Don't even dare to put developers into the sysadmin bucket. Some have a clue as to what it takes to install, configure, and maintain infrastructure. Most do not. So please, don't cheapen our work any more by saying that.
Exactly this. When you make developers do sysadmin work you end up with networks and infrastructure the likes of which I have spent most of my career cleaning up:
Poorly or undocumented installs.
Critical services running on someones laptop,
Root logins enabled.
Cabling to cause nightmares.
Servers installed on an old desktop stuffed under a desk.
No centralised user authentication.
Crap P@55w0rd5 for privileged users on servers.
Forgotten servers.
Lost servers.
No virtualisation.
No backups.
Unauthorised/unsecured Wifi access points.
Shared passwords.
Active user accounts for people who left years ago.
Passwords stored in internet accessible wiki.
Too many others to mention.
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Friday 28th July 2017 17:37 GMT John Crisp
Dream <on>
<brrrrring>
Ahhh I seee some bastard is awake then. I seem to have a problem with my computer....
Did you know it's sysadmin day?
Look don't give me that shit. I have this problem...
And it is the one day a year you should be nice to me?
Like I care. I need this report printed.... you people are all the same moaning and whining and needing your egos stroked and never fixing stuff....
Oh dear. Your 10p will be at reception where I'll leave it on my way to the pub. Please use your call wisely.
<click>... <slurp>
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