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Originally Posted by rockfan4

I work with flippin' geniuses. IT related.

We have to temporarily relocate some servers so that we can do some power work in part of one of our data centers.

The open cabinet that I'm going to use doesn't have working patch panel above it, but there's a couple top-of-rack switches a few cabinets away. Rather than mount another pair of switches, we ran some cables from that rack to the one I want to use.

I used ports 13 - 24 on both switches, in fact one of the geniuses helped me run the cables. I should have labeled all the ports, but #1, the label maker I had to use blows, and #2, this is temporary, remember? So I labeled #13, 14, 15, 16, then left a bunch blank, and labeled 22, 23 and 24. On the other switch I messed up some of the labels, so I only labeled 13, and 22, 23, 24. To me, it was obvious I cabled all 12 ports on each switch, but I guess not.

I stopped in tonight as they were finishing up the move, and wouldn't you know it, they only used the ports I labeled. I asked why they didn't just start at 13 and then use 14, 15, etc. they said they didn't realize they were live. The cabinet was open where the switches were, so I know they could see all the cables plugged in.

Retirement can't come soon enough.

I feel ya. A long long time ago when I was in a manufacturing control role I instructed an operator to add a bag of methocel ( a thickener) to a batch. When the line sampler came back, she said that the batch had two big lumps in it. I figured that the operator had added the methocel too fast. Oh no he didn't, he simply slashed the bag and tossed it in then went on break.

After I wrote him up the union rep came back with "YOU told him to add a bag which he did."

That's when I decided that R&D was a better gig.