Had something like that on campus recently – the physical plant sent an email telling us they were cutting power to our building to replace our power meter at 6:45am, estimated time of repair about an hour. I show up at 6:20 and power down everything, and then sit there and wait for the power to go out – I'm in the server room with a battery powered lamp just waiting and waiting. Finally I head down to the loading dock at about 7:30 to see what's going on only to find the phys plant guys packing up. Their response? "Oh, we were just cutting the 440V lines – we didn't touch the 110 or 220."
At least it was an excuse to clean up my cabling, right? ---- Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: William Robbins <dangerw...@gmail.com<mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com<mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:40:57 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com<mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Subject: Re: Monday morning not-so-funny To quote the great man -sc..."OOOF! That's just sad incompetence there. Hopefully all systems power up smoothly. - WJR On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:25, Devin Meade <devin.me...@gmail.com<mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello all, Our electric provider, OG&E, calls us at 10 AM saying "We are replacing your meter now and we will cut your power off in about 1 min". Our facilities mgr says "Uh no you don't, you didn't' schedule it". They say they must do it. So we say we need at least 15 min and shame on you for not scheduling it. So we have just about everything powered down, when they call back. They accidentally had the wrong address, it's really the building up the street under renovation ... and we are so sorry. So we now start powering up our systems. I just had to share this ... you can't make this up! Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
