[geeks] OH YEAH

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:57:19PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> No no, that was the -second- time.  The two incidents were about two
> months apart, IIRC.  The first time, it was a SW Bell tech who got scared
> shitless when he set the alarm off by not badging out.  He panicked,
> slammed the EPO with his fist.
> That didn't kill the alarm (and he didn't think to just walk out), and the
> dude went ape-shit.  When the found him, he was trying to yank the lockbox
> off the FMS-120 release.
> I heard this from the manager of the datacenter (back when it was
> $OtherCompany), and I still have the email[1] confirming what he told me
> via phone the next day in my Eudora hive.
> They didn't think to lock down the EPO until the lady who worked for
> $DataCenter made the same (or similar) mistake.  After that, they made
> -everyone- take the little training course, even us customers.  They
> reassured us that we needn't go psycho when we hear the alarm.

Yep, she made the exact same mistake, from what I heard.

> They weren't silent for long.  I can only imagine that what happened when
> I noticed was the same thing that happened at all $DataCenter's other
> customers:
<snip>

When it happened the second time, I was in the office area.. Everyone popped
up out of their cubes like chipmunks when they heard things go silent (you
never realize how loud it is until it goes quiet..)

"Aw shit."

Everyone just started walking back to the internal portion of the
datacenter, where we just started turning off stuff.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX