Who, Me? Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button
Ticklish situation solved with a lie about emergency maintenance
WHO, ME? Admitting to mistakes is a ticklish task, but one The Register tackles head-on each Monday in "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column that chronicles your worst working moments.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Bowman," who sent us a story from the early 2000s, a time when he says most servers were floor-mounted monsters.
"I worked in an organization in Glasgow with a datacenter full of them, some with an external disk storage array sitting neatly beside the server."
Maintenance was complicated by the arrays and servers looking remarkably similar.
One fine day, Bowman learned that one of the servers needed some maintenance, including a hard reboot.
A colleague named "Vince" set off to do the job, which everyone assumed would take a handful of minutes. Rather longer than expected passed before anyone realized Vince...
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