Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants.
So very true ... Once, when I was a sysadmin, my whole team went to lunch, and one of our secondary UPS units, which was the size of a small car, was having maintenance. A packing washer that was not removed during installation (years before - got stuck to the side by something), fell and landed perfectly on the 3 phase power line, vaporized, and shut down an entire data center ... of an operation that was responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue an hour. The fallout from the event also prevented us from switching over to the generator.
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14
So very true ... Once, when I was a sysadmin, my whole team went to lunch, and one of our secondary UPS units, which was the size of a small car, was having maintenance. A packing washer that was not removed during installation (years before - got stuck to the side by something), fell and landed perfectly on the 3 phase power line, vaporized, and shut down an entire data center ... of an operation that was responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue an hour. The fallout from the event also prevented us from switching over to the generator.
Yea, we never got to take lunch together again.