Happy SysAdmin Appreciation day!
Ok, ok, I’m a bit slow off the mark, but Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day!
Yesterday, Friday 31st July was the annual SysAdmin day. It’s the occasion where you can throw a big party for your resident sysadmin, to show him/her how much you care.
No one threw a celebratory bash for me (it’s not too late *wink* *wink*), so I instead spend a while browsing their list of Advice to employees on the proper use of the System Administrator’s valuable time. It’s great stuff. Here’s a few sample ideas:
(In following examples, we will substitute the name “Ted” as the System Administrator)
- Play with all the wires you can find. If you can’t find enough, open something up to expose them. After you have finished, and nothing works anymore, put it all back together and call Ted. Deny that you touched anything and that it was working perfectly only five minutes ago. Ted just loves a good mystery. For added effect you can keep looking over his shoulder and ask what each wire is for.
- When Ted’s at the water cooler or outside taking a breath of fresh air, find him and ask him a computer question. The only reason he takes breaks at all is to ferret out all those employees who don’t have email or a telephone.
- When the printer won’t print, re-send the job 20 times in rapid succession. That should do the trick.
- When Ted calls you 30 minutes later and tells you that the printer printed 24 pages of your 500-page document before it ran out of paper, and there are now nine other jobs in the queue behind yours, ask him why he didn’t bother to add more paper.
Awesome stuff! Have a great weekend :)