2 reasons I love my workplace this week.
1. I have just been given a pay rise worth 1660.09 pa
This is back-dated to April. :-)
2. An engineer in the IT unit at my workplace decided to test the fire
alarms.
He failed to isolate the alarms from the sprinkler system first. The
sprinklers
do not spray water, they spray a lovely, mildly corrosive to computers
fire retardant foam. He started by testing the alarms in the room which
houses all the gizmos that allow the network to operate.
The building which houses the IT unit has an interesting air conditioning
system into which the foam went after it had filled the first room.
It then started squirting out all over the SMS database server computer
(this is the one that has details of *all* samples received by the VLA
across
the entire UK, including the FMD samples), and the nice new server they are
testing currently which cost 300,000 and has a capacity of half a terabyte.
They spent the whole of yesterday cleaning foam out of every single piece of
hardware in the networking room, and most of today. They are now going to
have to wait for everything to dry off properly, the test everything for
electrical safety, then test that it simply still works. Until that is done,
everything
is offline.
Oops.
--
Chris Lyth (Clyth@)
IBM: Idiots Built Me
1. I have just been given a pay rise worth 1660.09 pa
This is back-dated to April. :-)
2. An engineer in the IT unit at my workplace decided to test the fire
alarms.
He failed to isolate the alarms from the sprinkler system first. The
sprinklers
do not spray water, they spray a lovely, mildly corrosive to computers
fire retardant foam. He started by testing the alarms in the room which
houses all the gizmos that allow the network to operate.
The building which houses the IT unit has an interesting air conditioning
system into which the foam went after it had filled the first room.
It then started squirting out all over the SMS database server computer
(this is the one that has details of *all* samples received by the VLA
across
the entire UK, including the FMD samples), and the nice new server they are
testing currently which cost 300,000 and has a capacity of half a terabyte.
They spent the whole of yesterday cleaning foam out of every single piece of
hardware in the networking room, and most of today. They are now going to
have to wait for everything to dry off properly, the test everything for
electrical safety, then test that it simply still works. Until that is done,
everything
is offline.
Oops.
--
Chris Lyth (Clyth@)
IBM: Idiots Built Me