ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TICKET
Sysadmin toasts
An IT team toast doesn’t need a keynote. One shared wish is enough: a tested backup, a silent pager or a user who actually read the error message. Here are twelve short toasts from our virtual bar, ready for the people who keep things running.
How to use these toasts
Choose a line for the occasion: a finished deployment, a team get-together or an ordinary coffee break. Each toast has a ready-made invitation link with a virtual drink. Copy the link address and send it to a friend, or open it to visit the bar yourself. The invitation waits for its guest to accept.
12 short toasts for your IT team
Invitation with this toast ↗To backups you never need — and have actually tested.
Invitation with this toast ↗To DNS being innocent. For once.
Invitation with this toast ↗To Fridays without a “quick deploy” at 4:59.
Invitation with this toast ↗To pagers that stay silent at 3 a.m.
Invitation with this toast ↗To the user who actually read the error message.
Invitation with this toast ↗To certificates renewed before the outage.
Invitation with this toast ↗To updates followed by a successful reboot.
Invitation with this toast ↗To monitoring that’s quiet for the right reasons.
Invitation with this toast ↗To passwords that never end up on a sticky note.
Invitation with this toast ↗To the UPS that outlasted the power cut.
Invitation with this toast ↗To documentation that describes this decade’s infrastructure.
Invitation with this toast ↗To a quiet life in IT. We’ll settle for a quiet evening.
Coffee and water count, too
The menu includes sudo espresso and Backup Water, so an end-of-shift ritual doesn’t have to involve alcohol. A virtual drink is just an excuse to thank someone for handling an incident, updating the runbook or helping with a stubborn ticket. You can choose a different drink when you visit the bar.