Who, Me? Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button
Ticklish situation solved with a lie about emergency maintenance
In the early 2000s, a tech team in Glasgow experienced a hilarious moment when one of their colleagues, named Vince, pressed the wrong power button. The team worked in a datacenter filled with large server systems and external disk storage arrays that resembled each other closely. When Vince was tasked with performing maintenance on a server, he unintentionally pressed the power button on the storage array instead of the server.
Realizing his mistake, he held onto the button, fearing it would lead to an outage. Concerned colleagues gathered in the datacenter to witness the situation, but no one else was nearby to see his predicament. After some time, the team's boss took the server down under the guise of urgent maintenance, and Vince finally let go of the power button.
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