I had a site that was going down multiple days a week for a hour or two. Turns out a employee was unplugging the small rack surge strip to plug in their coffee maker. They also happened to be the person complaining the loudest about how incompetent IT was. For some reason what she did was understandable and not worthy of a write up. But me telling her not to touch anything connected to server rack was going over the line. She was gone within the year having finally made someone with more suction mad.

[–] mdurell@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Hot take; if IT had important gear running on a single power outlet with no UPS where it's easily accessible and any schmuck could pull the power, she made a pretty compelling point about incompetence.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You don't often get to choose a racks location in a small office and the UPS only ran the router and switch for a hour. You sound like you have never worked in the field.

[–] mdurell@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm over 30 years in the field, thanks

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Then you know that what you said is not always possible to achieve in terms of preventing access.

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