Happy Sysadmin Day, the Bitlocker keys are in a bowl on top of the fridge

Seven days after CrowdStrike's bad update took down Windows-based computers around the world, System Administrator Appreciation Day has arrived. And what lovely gifts did your employer spoil you with today? Shares in the company? A brand new Cybertruck? A USB stick? Maybe you got that new hardware you'd been asking for? Or did …

[Dev_Fit]

... not genAI, anything but that

Here's to all of you, though

[Doctor Syntax]

Shares in the company? that depends on the way the company's heading.

A brand new Cybertruck is still a Ccybertruck.

But a USB stick is always useful to have.

[Alister]

I keep asking for the new improved cordless cattleprod, but still no sign of it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Cattleprod as a gift? No no no, buy one and expense it, that's a critical work tool (sometimes applied to critical tools that wander by misdion control).

[Korev]

Yeah quite, buying your own cattleprod is bull...

[Will Godfrey]

I'd give them a taser - to use on the idiots that fuck up everything they touch... starting with the CEO.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Just give everyone in the C-suite a Taser. They will inevitably use it on themselves and each other while playing with it.

More entertaining and less liability

[Excused Boots]

Or as most company’s C-suite people will see it, ‘sysadmins’, who? What are they?

Oh, are they the people who clean the toilets? Good for them, now as you were everyone!

[Martin-73]

Here's to all the sysadmins

whether you be corporate, small business owner doing double duty and trying to keep on top of updates, or a BOFH of old school :)

Edit, added beer for friday

[Gene Cash]

Giving them a day off and doing the malware update myself

Our DBA is sweet, but if we touched her servers ourselves, we'd be missing fingers.

[parrot]

Re: Giving them a day off and doing the malware update myself

Funny, you know, I did have today off. The whole week in fact. Have been wondering what's in store for me on Monday.

[Martin-73]

Re: Giving them a day off and doing the malware update myself

A who me episode? (hopefully not)

[DS999]

It would have really been ironic

If Sysadmin Day had been last Friday. "Happy Sysadmin Day! Now go celebrate by working loads of overtime this weekend getting all our stuff back online!"

[Blackjack]

Turn off every machine, and get them a keg of beer?

[Martin-73]

The machines or the sysadmins :)

[Blackjack]

Yes.

Or whatever ends in more beer.

[Martin-73]

Tip a pint of cheap beer over the servers, then feed the kegs to the sysadmins

[Bebu]

Space in the basement,...

rolls of old carpet and a decent shovel.

Convince the building management to make the windows openable from the inside ostensibly for WH&S reasons. :)

[Anonymous Coward]

Asked my wife to make something to celebrate the day.

Our department is the sysadmins for the production machines. As my cooking skills may well be negative (I've ruined microwave oatmeal), I asked my wife to make something for us to celebrate. The resulting chocolate biscotti with chocolate chips was a big hit - fairly hard for those who like it that way, but turning into almost a brownie when dunked into one's hot beverage of choice. One co-worker even dunked it in hot chocolate - triple chocolate biscotti!

[Anonymous Coward]

Darwin

Here in Darwin in the NT, sysadmin day is a public holiday.