Today is SysAdmin Day. Or at least so claims the League of professional systems administrators.

System Administrator Day give me visions of the movie Fight Club, which is about a lot of things, among them the notion that the vast majority of this world works seemingly irrelevant jobs that are only noticed when they messes up.

28 Jul 2006

One quote from the movie to summarize it: "We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not f*%# with us. "

Sysadmins too only become visible when they mess up: your internet connection drops, corporate networks go down, etc. But they don't engineer any great new tools that allow you to work more efficiently.

They are caught between two fires. They get paid to keep the network up and running, but are pressed by end users to enable new applications and tools. Since a stable network is a network that's touched as little as possible, the sysadmin can only make enemies.

But for one day, hate your sysadmin just a little less. Next week you can go back to normal.   

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