In honor of today's Custodian-with-a-floor-polisher induced network outage at Hartford Adult Education (North), I have dusted off a dear favorite of mine: the
Random Network Damage Table. Grab a ten-sider and you too can play along with the gallant geeks of MHIS as we fight to keep the network running!
Random Network
Damage Table | | 1 | Fire | | 2 | Act of God | | 3 | Power Outage | | 4 | Custodian * | | 5 | Fiber-Eating Squirrel | | 6 | Custodian * | | 7 | Flood | | 8 | Data Center Explodes | | 9 | Custodian * | | 10 | Fiber-Seeking Backhoe |
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* Roll on the Special Custodial Damage Table | Special Custodial
Damage Table | | 1 | Power cut by night man
looking for lighting panel | | 2 | Cord pulled by custodian
with floor polisher | | 3 | Equipment buried under
boxes of paper | | 4 | Floor waxing: no access | | 5 | Slop-sink overflow
drowns equipment | | 6 | Staff tuns off A/C | | 7 | Custodians hide mis-
delivered equipment | | 8 | Can't find a custodian
with a Geiger-counter | | 9 | Custodians move entire
PC lab into hall to clean | | 10 | Custodian uses fiber
jumper as clothesline |
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done
netcurmudgeon
Comments
Power cut by maintenance guy who pushed the button to open the door...what do you mean it's the server room EPO button? (Actual event)
...We did that to ourselves on move-in day at our present building. That's when we discovered that the EPO buttens -- despite being placarded PULL TO ACTIVATE -- were PUSH buttons.
All of the items on the SCDT have happened during my tenure in Hartford. Most fun, of course, is being waxed out of a building. Or, for extra points waxed in, as happened to two of my guys in 2003. One does not tread on a custodian's freshly waxed floor and live; all they could do was cool their heels in the MDF for 45 minutes until the floors dried.