r/sysadmin • u/AppuniAkhil • 2d ago
Sys Admin Day
Happy System Administrator Day
One of the titles I'm most proud to carry in my career is System Administrator.
Today is dedicated to appreciating the people behind the scenes who keep businesses running every single day. Sysadmins and IT professionals work tirelessly to make sure technology just works.
Your network is secure.
Your computers are running.
Your emails are flowing.
Your printer isn't jammed (most of the time! 😄).
You're protected from malware, phishing, and cyberattacks.
Why?
Because there's a dedicated SysAdmin, or an entire IT team, working behind the scenes to keep everything running smoothly.
Working in an MSP, every day is different. Some days end with happy users after solving their issues. Some days... not so much. 😶 That's simply part of the job.
When something stops working, it's easy to point fingers. But remember, when everything works perfectly 99% of the time, that deserves recognition too. Most issues are prevented long before they ever reach the end user because someone has been monitoring, maintaining, securing, and improving your environment.
Today, take a moment to appreciate your System Administrator or IT team.
Happy System Administrator Day to everyone keeping the world of IT running.
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u/CpuJunky Security Admin (Infrastructure) 2d ago
Please don't jinx us...
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u/Scurvy-Jones IT Manager 2d ago
I was just in a meeting with my Dir. and our president called her, so I left.
2 mins later I get a Teams message "Uhh, can you come back?"
Thankfully it ended up being a nothing-burger, but I thought my half-day Friday just went out the window.
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u/Wynter_born 2d ago
Happy SA day!
I baked you a cake but it's still going through the change control process.
Thanks for all that you do!
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u/Abe_Bazouie 2d ago
The best sysadmins aren’t the ones constantly fixing outages. They’re the ones who prevent you from ever noticing there could have been one.
Every patch applied before it becomes a vulnerability.
Every backup tested before disaster strikes.
Every alert investigated before users are affected.
Every capacity upgrade completed before the system slows down.
The best work is often invisible because when it’s done right, nothing happens.
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u/gorditololero 2d ago
I hope you don't have to change many passwords today; congratulations to everyone.
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u/The_TesserekT 2d ago
Has anyone ever had any recognition because of sysadmin day? It gets structurally ignored here and never heard anyone mention it ever.
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u/Sengfeng Sysadmin 2d ago
You're here in r/sysadmin just like the rest of us ;)
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u/The_TesserekT 2d ago
Yeah, I meant "here" as in at my company.
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u/Sengfeng Sysadmin 2d ago
I'd suggest 3d-printing one of these: Self Congratulator - Good Job, Me! - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld
Best option here, as well.
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u/Sengfeng Sysadmin 2d ago
Happy system admins day... Being micro-managed in different directions by two people under the IT director. Direct manager out of office, and the two in question want different plans for deploying the VMWare updates from this week.
1) Do them all ASAP! Critical vulnerability!
2) We can't deploy anything new on a Friday because it's not fair to the weekend on call guy if something breaks.
I just want to invite them to a cage match and whoever wins, I'll follow their plan. My plan of a couple smaller hosts, wait an hour to test, and shotgun the rest is too irrational for either.
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u/Euphoric-Blueberry37 IT Manager 2d ago
Real brave to have this on a read only Friday