I swear this is not a dilbert cartoon:
I work for an 8 person co. doing all the IT stuff. We had a power outage last month and just to be prudent I unplugged each powerstrip to the computers and a few others to avoid the surge when power was restored. After an hour the power came back on and I told everyone to plug in their comps and powerup.
5 minutes later, our boss came over to my desk and said angrily, My computer is totally down! We strolled together back to his office and I stood in the doorway for a few seconds while I looked at his computer. The PC was plugged into the power strip, and then he had taken the powerstrip plug, and plugged it back into the powerstrip. I looked at him, and (though I was wondering if he'd tried flicking the red switch on the powerstrip at all after he'd plugged it into itself) I said flatly, "I don't think it's gonna work like that" and plugged the strip into the wall. Before the power outage he was an ignorant control freak. Now I kind of have carte blanche on all IT decisions.
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I swear this is not a dilbert cartoon: I work for an 8 person co. doing all the IT stuff. We had a power outage last month and just to be prudent I unplugged each powerstrip to the computers and a few others to avoid the surge when power was restored. After an hour the power came back on and I told everyone to plug in their comps and powerup. 5 minutes later, our boss came over to my desk and said angrily, My computer is totally down! We strolled together back to his office and I stood in the doorway for a few seconds while I looked at his computer. The PC was plugged into the power strip, and then he had taken the powerstrip plug, and plugged it back into the powerstrip. I looked at him, and (though I was wondering if he'd tried flicking the red switch on the powerstrip at all after he'd plugged it into itself) I said flatly, "I don't think it's gonna work like that" and plugged the strip into the wall. Before the power outage he was an ignorant control freak. Now I kind of have carte blanche on all IT decisions.