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Hey! It looks like the gypsy attempts to borrow the copper from the AC units were merely a crafty diversion. Gypsy Team Two, it seems, was stealing the uninterruptible power supply from a different building totally. There is much more copper in one of those.
However, the outage on our end was much more brutal and unable to be mitigated by making the fanning motion with the server room door.
Again, I've volunteered to handle stake-out duties in Aberdeen. Though I've made perfectly clear my willingness to "crack some skulls" in the name of improved uptime, I think they may hire a local security firm rather than fly me to Scotland.
In other corporate news, I've been invited to attend Hurricane Preparedness Training. The email invitation specified that it was mandatory.
I got an earlier email instructing me to not sign up for it, though, so I promptly deleted it.
It seems I.T. will have our own, offline, Hurricane Preparedness Training. We will either be given the "real truth" about the whole "plan" or we will just be informed that in the event of a major disaster we are expected to ride out the storm on the 28th floor or go down with the ship.
Either bit of news would distress the regular users to no end. That is why they have their own "Bottled water is located in the blah blah flashlights yadda yadda orderly migration to the DR site" meeting and we get the hard core "It says in your contract you are responsible for the servers, nerds - You think that don't apply when it rains!?!?!?!" meeting.
It is the kind of meeting that makes users cry.
For that reason alone, I love that kind of meeting.