Interesting discussion, which evokes the following two true storiesT.

 

Story 1:

Many years ago, a friend walked into his data center and noticed a message
on the system console:

<backupproductname> will expire in 15 days!

 

He pointed to it and asked the operator something probably starting with
"WTF"; operator's answer: "Oh, it always says that."

 

"Um, no, just for the last 15 days." - and said operator was never heard
from again. 

 

Story 2:

.although it's possible that he wound up at another site, where after a
forklift upgrade, they restarted VM/SP HPO and all the PROFS mail was gone
(yeah, this was a while ago too). Sysprog looks at console, sees that they
did a COLD start. He asks WTF; operator says "Well, the system had been down
for two days, so I figured it had to be cold by now!"

 

I'm quite sure THAT operator is cold by now.

 

I bet this august group has some stories to add. And no, I don't have
anything against operators!

 

.phsiii (not Friday, but still)


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