But you probably will anyway.
It’s that time of year again — your inbox is flooded with “Happy SysAdmin Day!” messages along with password reset requests and someone asking if you can “just take a quick look” at the Wi-Fi.
Sure, it’s your day, but if history tells us anything, you’ll probably spend it cleaning up someone else’s emergency (or emergencies), answering questions better suited for ChatGPT or reverse-engineering a mystery system change no one documented.
So, in your honor, here are five all-too-relatable ways you’ll probably end up celebrating.
1. Play hide and seek with your endpoints
What better way to celebrate than trying to locate a rogue laptop that’s been MIA since the company offsite? You could try guessing its IP address, remote in blindly or manually trace it across four spreadsheets.
Or, you know, your RMM could just … find it.
Celebrate with: Afun game of “Where in the world is that sales guy’s laptop?”
2. Watch someone click a phishing link
You’ve preached it, trained for it, even begged — yet here comes the forwarded email:
Subject: “Weird email — is this legit?”
Body: “I clicked the link, and now the screen is flashing. What should I do?”
Too bad your security tool didn’t catch it. Or alert you. Or do…anything.
Celebrate with: Real-time incident response during your lunch break.
3. Get blamed for their printer woes
The printer’s down. Again. No ticket, no context. Just someone standing over your desk waving a half-printed spreadsheet like it’s a crime scene photo. Naturally, your RMM didn’t pick up the error code or notify anyone because it doesn’t talk to the printer.
Celebrate with: Becoming the unofficial help desk for mystery paper jams.
4. Lock yourself out of admin
Nothing says Happy SysAdmin Day like resetting a critical password you forgot because the sticky note fell off your monitor, and your password manager never synced. Would’ve been nice if your tools flagged the expired creds or reminded you before disaster struck.
Celebrate with: Guessing your credentials while praying nobody notices.
5. Push a Friday patch
It’s 4:59 PM. You just wanted to slide into the weekend, but someone needed that “quick fix” that would “only” take five minutes. Your patch queue wasn’t automated, the rollback plan wasn’t tested and your RMM didn’t catch the dependency conflict. Now, you’re here, watching logs scroll and dreams fade.
Celebrate with: The soothing hum of servers and the scent of canceled weekend plans.
Real talk: You deserve better tools
You’re doing wizard-level work with cobbled-together scripts, outdated tools and too many manual processes. You shouldn’t have to chase endpoints or babysit backup schedules. You shouldn’t be the only one who knows where the VPN config lives.
So, here’s to you — the IT backbone, the one who keeps the business running despite the chaos. If no one’s said it yet, thank you.
And if they really want to thank you? Tell them to get you tools that actually help. You know — like the kind we make.