Comments on: Data center stories that will make you laugh or cry

By: Konraden

Konraden — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:39:21 +0000

I’ve had something similar happen to me while at school. I work for the IT Department while being a full-time student. One of the hippie groups on campus decided it wasn’t hot enough for the A\C units to be on around campus; they threw garbage bags over every A\C unit they could find, including the ones cooling off our server room. The A\C units shutdown, followed by the servers. You see, they contain shut off’s for events just like this. Despite having no internet connection, nothing else was lost.

By: BS

BS — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:44:25 +0000

The AC story sounds like complete BS

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:42:33 +0000

Isn’t it amusing that the story could likely be B.S. too? It has all the elements of presumed credibility, such as spelling out a big upcoming meeting with the _____ state commission to make it seem legit. Has anyone checked Snopes?

By: Msean

Msean — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:06:55 +0000

The tone of the missive and especially the hectoring “In the future, let’s try to be a little more conscientious of our
energy usage!” makes it sound as if the writer is in management, which would explain his inability to realize that there are situations in which he doesn’t know it all. It would also explain the lack of any statement regarding his ass hitting the street.

By: Cthulhu

Cthulhu — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:13:18 +0000

And that is why non-system administrator personnel should never have access to the server room. Never. Ever. It’s a room filled with multi-tonne costing precision equipment. You wouldn’t allow janitors to enter an operating room while there’s people operating, to add an example.

That, and the cooling systems shouldn’t be as easily turned off.

By: Nascar

Nascar — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:44:36 +0000

This is absolutely rediculous

By: Killer

Killer — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:20:21 +0000

Knowing myself and the good old days where I maintained server rooms like this, I probably would have lost my job because I would have gone up to that person and slapped the ever living shit out of his ass!!!!!! What a friggin moron.

By: Pingdom

Pingdom — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:08:46 +0000

SuperSparky:
The story at The Daily WTF doesn’t say much about that aside from “As for the employee who sent it, he decided to take an early retirement.”

Which would be understandable…

By: SuperSparky

SuperSparky — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:27:20 +0000

Oh come on, you can’t drop the “A/C guy” bomb without completing the story. I hope this hippie was told to not let the door hit him on the way out.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:51:15 +0000

*facepalm*