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Re:Boeing to lay off hundreds more engineers by pilsetnieks on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @08:25PM (#14144378)
I could easily imagine an incident where someone plugged something in the wrong socket, something got destroyed, and it was codified in policy that only the people who certifiably know what they're doing are allowed to plug stuff into sockets. It takes just one to ruin it for everyone.
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Re:Boeing to lay off hundreds more engineers by nitrogen on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:16PM (#14144944)
Like plugging a vacuum cleaner into a UPS.
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Re:Boeing to lay off hundreds more engineers by walshemj on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @07:15AM (#14146925)
Which actually happened at a subsidiary of British telecom I worked at - the cleaners unplugged the accounts receivable unix system.

It was a POS system the finance director brought and caused no end of problems at one point we were unable to cut a BACS tape for over 6 months

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