Jan 12
… since they were accountants, they naturally picked the cheapest backup solution they could dig up, which was a 40-dollar backup box that used VHS video cassettes, underneath a beancounter’s desk, right by his foot. Every few weeks, it would occur to him that a backup hadn’t been done in a while, so he’d shove the VHS cassette into the backup box with his foot, then nudge the start button with his foot, and return to counting beans. The cassette would pop out when it was finished, and that was proof positive for them of a job done properly.
Lots of IT horrors! Link
This is for IT professionals I think, though I loved the story about the boss not telling them they were moving until half an hour before, and after $200,000 of ethernet had been laid! The guy got revenge wonderfully after they fired him though!
Holy crap dude. I’ve been in an office where the network was set up with the CAT5 cables strung from the ceiling in a Christmas-light-nightmare/spider web sort of fashion. Someone had fun with that place.
Heh, yeah thats a great read.
My first real I.T. professional job I inherited a network of about 25 office users, a smattering of full to capacity, out of warranty servers, and an internet connection being channeled through a four port linksys hub.
My first task was to create a shopping list of things we need, I ranked them in three categories:
Sometime in the near future:
Right now, today… same day shipping:
OMG Why didn’t you have this last month: