Forward to me by a coworker, from the Shark Tank at ComputerWorld: ----------------------------------------------------------- Shark Tank: And it's the prettiest little hub you ever saw
Business is booming for this manufacturer, so the production management group decides to expand into some long-unused office space adjoining the shop. "Of course, I was not made aware of this plan beforehand," grumbles a systems manager pilot fish. So when he gets a call complaining that a PC on the shop floor is down, fish checks it out and determines the trouble is in the network. "I backtracked to the unused office space where the nearest network hub was located, and found it sitting on the file cabinet it had always sat on." But the hub and file cabinet are now on the other side of the room -- and the network wires are dangling uselessly from the wall. Fish doesn't know who's responsible for doing this, so he curses under his breath while he mounts the hub to the wall and hooks it up again. "Things were fine for a couple of days, then I got another call from the guy on the shop floor," says fish. "Same symptoms." He runs back to the unused office and discovers that the walls have been freshly spray-painted. "Oddly, while the hub was no longer where I mounted it, there was a hub-shaped patch of unpainted wall there," fish says. "I located the freshly painted hub, scraped and scrubbed it until I could make out the status lights, cursed under my breath again and remounted the thing to the wall." Fish still can't find the maintenance worker who won't keep his hands off the hub. "But I alerted his supervisor that he needs to stop disconnecting my equipment," says fish. Less than 48 hours later, fish's phone rings again: same PC, same problem. A quick hike to the empty office confirms that the hub is gone once more. "The well-intentioned but incredibly thick-headed maintenance guy had taken it out to the paint shop to clean it up with steel wool and solvents," fish says. He rescues the hub yet again, swears a blue streak at the maintenance guy and mounts the hub on the wall one more time. The maintenance worker doesn't last another week, fish says. "But the hub is still mounted to the wall -- half-painted and virtually free of legible labels, but working reliably nonetheless." Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=45559&t=45559 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
