My company hired an outside IT guy to help install the new server and server rack a few months ago and after he finished all the phones were down. everyone was panicking and trying to figure out what was going on and they were about to call the guy that set up the server. I went to check it out and when I got in there the first thing I noticed was the power cable was just chillin' on the floor.

In such a scenario put on your headphones, start an interesting podcast, open... https://hackertyper.net/ ... on your laptop, every couple of minutes type a couple of lines, appear super focused and busy. Once you are bored and no one is looking, plug it back in.

i did this to myself yesterday, but on the ac side.

the universal power adapter for my homelab server didn't come with a european plug so i'm using a converter until i can source something reasonable. yesterday i was adding stuff to the cabinet and bumped the power strip.

turns out, american plugs are not only real sensitive to bumps, they also give off a lot of funny lights when they're used with 230V.

how do you guys live with these fischer-price plugs?

As a former IT support freelancer I say: easy money, grateful customers.

We had an outage in our small office and we had to fly a technician from India (same company, but still had to use our budget for the expenses).

Once here he spent two days tinkering with the router/server (basically a glorified access point+vpn client to connect to the network) he just told us he didn't know about networking and there was nothing he could do.

We had to do it ourselves, explain what we did and pretend he fixed it.

It wasn't really his fault they picked him for this when he was not qualified and was a nice guy. Even if we ratted him and claim a refund, we would have you pay for another person to come as we were not allowed to fix this ourselves.

But do you really want them touching it?

I don’t see an issue. You can spend 2 hours working on this. And by working I mean completely screwing around. Or you can be actually working.

Ma’am the network is haunted. Do you have any peanut butter? This will lure the network ghosts out of the Ethernet.

If power cord looks that way, definitely not enterprise grade equipment.

That's on you if you didn't remotely have them unplug and reset the power cable on both ends, confirm it, and have them watch for lights.

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i mean... the internet WAS down for them

That’s what you get for using garbage equipment, no locking power connector. Yuck meraki 🤮

Well maybe dont lock the it room. You'll have worse problems, but ill be amused.