Wow.....

[patgund]

From this post at techsupport:

"From: $user who for whatever reason came in on Monday when no one else was in the building.
To: IT Dept.
Re: A/C constantly running.

Hi Guys,

I came in today (Monday) to finish up a project I was working on before our big meeting with a potential client tomorrow, and I noticed that there were three or four large air conditioners running the entire time I was here. Since it's a three day weekend, no one is around, why do we need to have the A/C running 24/7? With all the power that all those big computers in that room use, I doubt it is really eco-friendly to run those big units at the same time. And all computers have cooling fans anyway, so why put the A/C for the building in that room? I got a keycard from $facilitiesmanager's desk and shut off the A/C units. I'm sure you guys can deal with it being warm for an hour or two when you come in tomorrow morning. In the future, let's try to be a little more conscientious of our energy usage. Thanks.


RESULT:

Fatalities: Exchange Server, Domain Controllers, a few Sun boxes that I'm not sure of the usage.
Near-Fatalities: Phone Switch, Apps Servers.

Temperature of server room 7AM Tuesday Morning: 90 Degrees Fahrenheit.

Status of Employee who sent the above e-mail: Terminated."

Comments

[snobahr.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that guy's related to the Unicoder?

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

Here's to server admins who don't have environment monitoring on their systems.

[ag-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I'm shocked that the server room was only at 90 degrees F.

If our (single) AC unit goes out at 10:00am, the two servers with thermal event response capability are in thermal shut down at 10:15am, and the server room is at a toasty 97 degrees (from ~72 degrees) at 10:30am. I can't even imagine how > 5 servers would affect the heat load.

(Also: thank Ghods I have one of three keys to my SR...and the other two are held by people who understand that I will quit on the spot if they ever do something idiotic like that.)

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sure the tempurature dropped AFTER some of the servers crashed from thermal overload.........

[omcintyre.livejournal.com]

What a freaking idiot! It's a bit amazing to me that the keycards were so easily accessible. If that had happened while I was working for Intuit both the idiot who turned off the A/C units AND the facility manager would've been canned.

[seattlejo.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'd be pissed at the Facilities guy too.

[usqueba.livejournal.com]

o_O

We have a pretty girly network/system in a low-tech building at work but there's a big note on our thermostat, "DON'T TURN THIS OFF OVER THE WEEKEND" lest the computers overheat and die, etc. If the temp gets above 80, the a/c turns on.

Note: <jk>

[loli-cat.livejournal.com]

Hmp, sounds like the place where I used to work!!

Dunno why the frikken machines should have it so good, but then for that matter, why did the IT guy get so bent out of shape when I opened the door to spread the cold air around to those of us who would APPRECIATE it?? *^_^*

[spiffikins]

ohhhh I feel their pain.

of course, my server room doesn't have extra a/c, it just has whatever the "normal" a/c is for the suite, and the a/c is turned off at 5pm Friday night and back on at 9am Monday morning.

during the summer, there have been many occasions where I've gone into the server room on a Saturday around noon, and been amazed that machines were still functioning and not melted into puddles of goo.

my 'supplemental' cooling system is a 10 inch fan - consumer grade (I bought it at the drug store) that has been running since July 2004 *continuously*

I also have nightmares that the building will burn down because of this fan spontaneously bursting into flame.

[firedrake-mor.livejournal.com]

Just, AAARRRGGGHHH

[angelique69.livejournal.com]

Does the term brain dead hold any meaning for you? I knew it would. IDIOTS! Blessed Be, Angelique