From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Administrator_Appreciation_DaySystem Administrator Appreciation Day, also known as Sysadmin Day or SAAD (as in Happy SAAD!), falls on the last Friday in July. It exists solely to show appreciation to sysadmins and people with other similar occupations.
The first official Sysadmin Day was celebrated on July 28th 2000. Typical observances of this holiday are to present gifts to your Sysadmin. These gifts include chocolate, beer, wine, electronic toys, video games, and cake & ice cream.
Ted Kekatos has created System Administrator Appreciation Day, a time to honor the people whom neither rain, nor snow, nor bizarre "illegal operation" errors can keep from fixing your machine. Kekatos, a system administrator in Chicago, was inspired to create the special day by a Hewlett-Packard ad he saw in a magazine. In the ad, a system administrator is presented with flowers and fruit-baskets from employees as thanks for installing new printers. Ironically for a website celebrating the people who keep the servers running, during the first several years the website was not reachable on the day in question, since it invariably got slashdotted.
System Administrator Appreciation Day is now recognized internationally as an unofficial holiday. Many companies have Cake & Ice Cream parties for their entire IT staff.
This year System Administrator Appreciation Day took place at Friday, July 28th, 2006. Next year is Friday, July 27th, 2007.
Lyrics to the System Administrator Day song
(Original music and lyrics by Wes Borg of Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie)
There's a guy who works in another room, or on another floor.
He's the one you call, when your document ain't there no more.
He's probably a boy, but he might be a girl, or something in between.
He's the only one in the office who knows what PC Load Letter means.
He's your system administrator, he's probably into comic books.
And you tremble in fear when you have to hear one of his "What a dummy!" looks.
Got a virus? Lost your password? Or you just can't print?
In an hour he'll show up and crouch and squint.
Fight to save your files, he might be there all day,
But sometimes he just presses Caps Lock and walks away.
(Spoken) But HEY! Suddenly my password works! Wow! Hooray!
Hooray, hooray, oh happy day! I'm gonna buy my guy a gift to say:
Having you around means I get to stay stupid! and uninformed!
And I can keep opening dot e-x-e file attachments,
And forgetting my mother's maiden name, 'cause you'll fix it all for me, Yay!
I'll give you a cake, I'll give you a hug,
I'll buy the world's best System Administrator mug.
Just help me out, system administrator.
Please plug in my mouse, system administrator.
I don't know which button is the mouse click button, system administrator.
Piss him off, and you'll be fired by tomorrow morn.
'Cause he's the guy who knows that you've been surfing porn.
So, make sure you stay nice to your system administrator.
