anyone wanna make me feel better by stories of there busiest and most stressful day
15 Spice ups
Walking into a network where every PC and Server, upon starting, showed disk not found. Not big network, but outside of natural disaster, I don’t think that one can be beat.
1 Spice up
There was this one time, at band camp…
8 Spice ups
There was the time we had just moved (200 users) to a new bldg and I was at lunch with a former boss who was interviewing me for a possible new job. Email comes into my BB - our T1’s were down. Verizon’s fault, took 24 hrs to restore service. And I’m out of office…
Then the time where we were moving users to a new bldg at the Cleveland site. 12 cable drops not completed. Find out that the boss who knew about it, decided rather than sub out that work, to have us do it without tools and with just one ladder. Nearly a 24 hour workday that day…and I was pretty mutinous at the end of it…
How about last night, when I finally disconnected from one SQL Server at 10:30 PM? Oh, and that was after half a day doing nothing but climbing up and down atomic-reactor-hot tin roofs on shaky ladders, carrying heavy equipment, to troubleshoot two stinking wireless bridges that crapped out because of, oh look, the heat.
Yeah… still feeling a heavy need for coffee right now. 
Don’t know if that helps you at all, but just think - you could be mentally drained, physically exhausted, AND fatigued. It’s a great mix!
paul653
(Paul653)
6
At 8:30 one morning, a user deleted all payment data from all open sales orders due to a toxic mix of inattention and system loopholes. About 9:45 the next morning, I finally headed home from work while the office staff re-created the payment data from paper, because the backup wouldn’t restore in a way that allowed us to access the small subset of data we needed.
well i got told this morning that the tem leaders all needed a set of scales with associated handset by 4 (gmt) today,
problem 1 there are 8 team leaders this year instead of 6 last year were we told NO
problem 2 is that the tem leader s from last year had decided that when they handed back in the scales at the end of the season they didnt want to lose there chargers :S so kept them and guess what lost them hahaha
i spent all day trying to aqquire 2 new scales and 5 chargers whilst calibrating all the handsets for use with each scale set as the team leaders decided the numbered stickers on them from last year werent needed anymore
i hate this f****** job
Got notified at 11pm that all servers went down. Drove to work, got into the building and as I walked down the hall saw water pouring under the server room door. I opened the server room door and saw the most beautiful/horrific sight in my life. Water pouring from the ceiling down onto the top of the server cabinet and through the fans and all over the servers, switches, arrays, and power supplies. It looked like Christmas lights behind Niagara Falls at night.
7 Spice ups
Mark4517 wrote:
Got notified at 11pm that all servers went down. Drove to work, got into the building and as I walked down the hall saw water pouring under the server room door. I opened the server room door and saw the most beautiful/horrific sight in my life. Water pouring from the ceiling down onto the top of the server cabinet and through the fans and all over the servers, switches, arrays, and power supplies. It looked like Christmas lights behind Niagara Falls at night.
I would ask for pictures except I expect that you didn’t that the time to do such…
Would have liked to see that sight… and had proof that such a thing does happen and help get the funding to get my servers to a co-lo…
msoule
(Mike Soule)
11
Patrick8097 wrote:
You would be amazed how often that happens. Also you would be surprised when people put servers in a room with plumbing running above the servers they don’t see any issue with it.
1 Spice up
At my past job I was assigned the task of going out to one of our clients offices, which was 2 hours away, to replace a single IP phone. I get there and replace the phone then they suddenly realize they needed 3 new cat5 lines run from the first to the second floor on opposite sides of the building. I didn’t bring any equipment so I had to improvise by using paper scissors to cut the cat5 cables. Luckily I had a punchdown tool with me and a drill.
I started work at 7am and didn’t get home until 9pm that night. Probably the worst day ever for me.
edc4135
(EdC)
13
not a single day, but i got 27 phone calls while on ‘vacation’ over the long weekend here in the US (and over 100 work emails)
most of the calls were to inform me that a known error was still occurring.
It’s 10 days from the end of the school year, I’m waiting for my new budget and projects and people are to busy being flaky to report or request anything.
I ain’t got nothing going on.
brandon42
(Brandon4257)
15
Well, it certainly can’t compare to a waterfall onto your servers. But the first day of busy season this year the entire network suddenly went down for no reason, including phones since they are VoIP phones. A lot of searching later we found that some intern decided to rewire a room we already had set up for that group and just plugged any network cable that wasn’t already plugged into a computer into the switch in the room. Well, one cable happened to be extra and he, bless his heart, plugged both ends into the same switch, which in turn took down the entire network in the building. It still seems like a miracle that we caught that.
That was a very stressful day. One day that wasn’t stressful, just annoying, was our old building when the air conditioner went out at 9:30 at night. I had to go in and shut down non-essential servers as the server room was rapidly heating up, and wait patiently for the building maintenance guy to tell me he had to go to the workshop to pick up a part and he’d be back in an hour. He told me I didn’t have to stay, but… haha… the server room door was open to help cool it off. I wasn’t leaving him alone in the building with that unlocked. Needless to say, I got home close to 1AM that night and came back in around 7:30-8 the next morning to find that that maintenance guy hadn’t really fixed the problem and the building was still just as hot. Fortunately, the essential servers I had left running didn’t overheat. And the normal maintenance came out and fixed whatever the problem was. As the building cooled down, we slowly turned the rest of the servers back on.
mike7
(Mike7)
16
I didn’t have a busy day I had a busy week. Switching over to new network with Fairpoint and are branches kept going down up and down. We found the problem was Fairpoint but they were denying it and not seeing the problem. This went on almost the whole week until finally they saw it and fixed it. Doesn’t seem to bad but i was by myself when all of this happened and we have 11 branches total. With everyone having this problem.
it-matt
(IT Matt)
17
worst day was probably the day i got back to work after 7 days without power because of a major ice storm…way to many issues and soooo many reports to catch up on to send to clients and internally…longest day ever! lots of money lost and many clients to mend issues with…
Rivitir
(Rivitir)
18
Alex1318 wrote:
anyone wanna make me feel better by stories of there busiest and most stressful day
Last thursday, my exchange 2k server crashed and burned. Spent the whole 3 day weekend trying to get it restored and finally ended up building a zimbra email server so the company would have email.
Still working on the restore so I can get at least the emails/contacts/ etc off… so far no go.
2 Spice ups
well at least nothing went wrong with my day just incredibly busy and stressful
and today is nice and calm 
i still think the server with water pouring on it is the worst one yet
Brandon4257 wrote:
Well, it certainly can’t compare to a waterfall onto your servers. But the first day of busy season this year the entire network suddenly went down for no reason, including phones since they are VoIP phones. A lot of searching later we found that some intern decided to rewire a room we already had set up for that group and just plugged any network cable that wasn’t already plugged into a computer into the switch in the room. Well, one cable happened to be extra and he, bless his heart, plugged both ends into the same switch, which in turn took down the entire network in the building. It still seems like a miracle that we caught that.
+1 This just happened to me not too long ago but some kids did it. The kids honestly didn’t know what would happen so they got off with a stern warning from the principal.
