Fuck em’, no loss if a client is that braindead or accusatory.
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause
Submitted 20 hours ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/12/who_me/
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 15 hours ago
Tales from the field:
One developer walked into the client site, laptop bag under his arm. The moment he walked in, some hardware went down. They all turned to look at our developer shouting “WHAT DID YOU DO!!” The common rule at all clients seems to be to blame everything on the external developer, even when they’re still standing in the door opening.
One techie at a different client had to install some new empty rack in the server room. He didn’t found any outlet for his drill, and he didn’t want to run an extension cord, so plugged the drill one in the only outlet he found. It was the outlet marked by a different color because it was linked to the UPS, and that UPS went down hard when the drilling started, taking all the servers with it. That recovery took some time.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Who the hell uses a corded drill?
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
People who don’t want to have to deal with batteries.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 14 hours ago
Mostly people with very cheap employers. Like, we had to keep using the old computer mice with a ball, and regularly waste time cleaning out the lint, instead of just getting us optical mice.
palordrolap@fedia.io 13 hours ago
That first tale is clearly a case of when tech aura goes bad.
I mean, we like to let the non-techs believe that our mere presence can cause technology to behave, and we might even like to believe that ourselves, but that comes back to bite us if the hardware breaks instead.
... I'm not saying the tech should have grabbed something heavy and made a show of threatening the device, but I don't think it would have hurt!