If there weren't good parts of the job, we wouldn't do it. And the majority of users aren't lusers. There are some who we'd lay down in traffic for, because they understand our jobs are hard and thank us for what we do for them, not just by saying thank you but by making their requests clearly, giving us reasonable notive if the work is non-trivial, giving us reasonable time to do the work, and only calling something an emergency when it really is.
A lot of he time we just happen to be the one they blow off steam to when something out of their control makes their already bad day worse. I could have handled the 15-minute screamer several different ways. I could have stopped him after 15 seconds and told him how to file a ticket, except that he already had, both with me, and with the networking people. I could have told him to lower his voice or he'd be picking up his teeth with broken fingers. I could have turned my back on him mid-rant. What I did do was realize that this was nothing personal, let him scream himself out, then went back to waiting with everybody else for the network people to get the network running again.
Oh and to add to your Sysadmin 101 bullet points:
Make them want to file tickets by responding quickly and then using the ticketing system to communicate your progress in a timely fashion. Make sure the ticketing system is DEAD EASY to use--with ours, users never had to do anything more than send mail to help@oursite.ourcompany.com. Unless your job requires that you take requests over the phone or in person, don't.
Always remember what my wife, also a sysadmin, says: "Our job is to make the users productive, not to make them happy." Make them happy as much as you can (which is most of the time), but not at the expense of making them, or others, less productive.