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SweetCosmicPope t1_iwzlvz4 wrote

As an IT professional, and former datacenter technician, there’s so much wrong with this story. Several people above you needed to lose their jobs over this. This little eff up wasn’t by you, it came from several steps above you(and your boss).

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Bitter_Mongoose t1_iwzy5pq wrote

For real lol... who sends an intern, unsupervised, into the core data rack of an Enterprise to randomly plug in equipment, no port assignments or anything like that.

This whole scenario stinks so bad it makes me wonder if you were a weapon used to eliminate the head of IT 😂

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BikerJedi OP t1_ix0du1g wrote

>no port assignments or anything like that.

Didn't even tell me what rack the equipment was on or anything. I wandered around in there looking at switches and routers and shit until I found the modems. I didn't say shit because I wanted a paycheck and some experience, but yeah, stupid way to do things when you are dealing with critical systems. He should have at least shadowed me in there and watched, even if he wasn't going to say or do shit to help me.

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Bitter_Mongoose t1_ix0egs3 wrote

Ngl, there was a point in time when I would have done exactly the same thing for the same reasons- blissful ignorance and eager to learn lol.

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BikerJedi OP t1_iwzra5u wrote

Believe me, I know. My fuckup was really not paying attention to where my big ass feet were going.

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