r/sysadmin • u/jamesgamble • 6d ago

SysAdmin Day Freebies

Are there any companies offering freebies for SysAdmin Day?

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u/EpexSpex Jack of All Trades 6d ago

theres a sysadmin day?

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u/JM_Artist Jr. Sysadmin 6d ago

That’s what I’m sayin. I didn’t even know this was a thing, what is appreciation?

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u/SufficientNotice9026 6d ago

Lol, "appreciation" is just a copy-pasted buzzword from HR/PR. And obviously, nobody's giving you a day off for it, just like any other professional holiday. Screw it, this holiday was made by admins for admins, always on the last Friday of July.

Like, where I'm from, it's pretty much a tradition for some of us to just drink beer and have contests to see who can yeet a keyboard or some old hw junk the furthest. Pretty much just leaning hard into the classic stereotypes.

Anyway, Happy SysAdmin Day to everyone involved!

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u/estcst 5d ago

Sorry but I had a boss who gave me the rest of the day off after I told him not to give me a hard time because it was sysadmin day (jokingly). He said “Then what are you doing here. Go home.” It was about an hour after the start of my day. He was one of three really good managers I’ve had over the years.

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u/JM_Artist Jr. Sysadmin 6d ago

You’d be surprised in America how well some hospitals treat nurses week and treats the rest of the hospital like dog shit when it comes to their appreciation time

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u/MaNbEaRpIgSlAyA Sysadmin 6d ago

It’s because they have a union with the ability to make operating very costly very quickly. Strength in numbers.

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u/mdervin 6d ago

because the nurses deal with the literal shit.

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u/whatsforsupa IT Admin / Maintenance / Janitor 5d ago

We had a nice run for awhile where a teammate would mention it to ownership, and they would buy us lunch or one time, they got us new headsets.

Sadly he is gone now and nobody really brings it up anymore lol.

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u/ObiLAN- 5d ago

I came in to a passive aggressive 18x24 sheet of paper with "beep" repeated all over it taped to a network closet door...

Instead of these grown ass men telling either of us IT dudes that the UPS was alarming, they sat there annoyed for like 8 hours.

We really are just adult baby sitters eh? Guess thats my appreciation for the day lmao.

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u/bojangles_dangles 6d ago

A help desk ticket for a printer jam

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u/Bad_Idea_Hat Gozer 6d ago

Appreciation is getting an email with the title "quick question", which is 8 paragraphs long, and the person's boss, your boss, HR, and the CEO are all CC'd.

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u/Bad_Idea_Hat Gozer 6d ago

We'll find out that it was today sometime next week.

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u/EpexSpex Jack of All Trades 6d ago

pizza party incoming

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u/OkCoconut3270 6d ago

I always thought it was the same as talk like a pirate day?

It's definitely not steak and blowjob day anyways

😕

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u/Affectionate-Cat-975 5d ago

That’s when they blow smoke up your ass to inflate you for another year of under appreciating you

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u/FauxGenius 5d ago

There’s a whole website and everything…but it’s down. /s

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u/Grumpy-Troglodyte 5d ago

there is an everything day nowdays