[AusNOG] Junior techs

[Jacques Kosky]

Andrew Oskam wrote:
> Best story yet :P
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> Andrew Oskam
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> On 5/07/10 2:16 PM, Andrew Cox wrote:
>> My 2c:
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>> First day on the Job, network engineer was busy and asked me to go 
>> vacuum out around the test bench area.
>> Got out vacuum cleaner, plugged into one of the red power points on the 
>> desk, powered up vacuum cleaner...
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>> .. looked on in horror as the power to the 2 racks behind me went off 
>> and everything went silent.
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>> Summary: Learnt how the coloured power points were hooked up to the UPS 
>> system and plugging a 3000W vacuum cleaner into them doesn't work so well.
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>> - Andrew
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>> P.S. Karl .. I still have a server rack in my bedroom. :-P
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I remember a similar situation where another network person and I were 
doing some cabling and the other technie nudged the rack that had 7 or 8 
cisco dialup routers (5300s mainly) . IIRC I made some dumb comment 
along the lines of "Oh look! All of the lights in the rack have gone 
out". There was a second of silence where we looked at each other, did a 
whatdaf*ck doubletake and then started  ripping up the false floor to 
get to the power point. Not our best moment.

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Jacques Kosky
Senior Network Administrator 
State Library of Victoria
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