Originally Posted by
Ian W
In a machine room from my past, that no longer exists, a security guard groped for the light switch and powered down the research data center using the emergency switch despite its switch cover - rather obviously the lights did not come on although several smaller ones went off
. So the guard groped further and found the light switch and realized that the wrong switch had been used so switched it back on again and went on his way not realizing the chaos caused by the few minutes interruption and uncontrolled restoration.
This sounds like a similar occurrence.
Hum, on a tiny tiny scale compared to BA and many years ago, my colleague's company UPS (due to lack of space) was based in a storeroom/kitchen area. The IT team came from head office for an inspection, but realised that the cleaners had struggled one night to find a free power socket, so had unplugged the UPS to vacuum the offices. As there was a lack of spare sockets, the Sony Walkman toting cleaners had moved on from the fridge plug which was labelled "fridge - do not turn off" to the UPS plug which wasn't labelled or secured. Staff lunches were perfectly chilled but luckily the mains power didn't go down. So nothing was lost, lots was learned.
