Who, Me? Welcome to Monday morning and another instalment of “Who, Me?” - the weekly reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of what not to do at work, and how to get away with it.

This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Patrick” who told us he once installed an extra shelf of storage for a NAS at a local council office in Australia.

The job initially went well.

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[–] 57 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Tales from the field:

One developer walked into the client site, laptop bag under his arm. The moment he walked in, some hardware went down. They all turned to look at our developer shouting "WHAT DID YOU DO!!" The common rule at all clients seems to be to blame everything on the external developer, even when they're still standing in the door opening.

One techie at a different client had to install some new empty rack in the server room. He didn't found any outlet for his drill, and he didn't want to run an extension cord, so plugged the drill one in the only outlet he found. It was the outlet marked by a different color because it was linked to the UPS, and that UPS went down hard when the drilling started, taking all the servers with it. That recovery took some time.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That first tale is clearly a case of when tech aura goes bad.

    I mean, we like to let the non-techs believe that our mere presence can cause technology to behave, and we might even like to believe that ourselves, but that comes back to bite us if the hardware breaks instead.

    ... I'm not saying the tech should have grabbed something heavy and made a show of threatening the device, but I don't think it would have hurt!

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Fuck em', no loss if a client is that braindead or accusatory.

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