You were not supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off
Sent on a mission to our co-lo suite to tidy things up a bit for an imminent customer visit in the early 2000's (as I held the dubious advantage of living about 200 miles closer to it than the rest of the company)
Spent the morning tidying cabling and left-over junk, one more thing I thought before leaving - that glass door is on the wrong way round on the middle rack
No problem - they're reversible - let's just turn it round to match the rest, 2min job and it's all going to look epic.
Except as part of turning said glass door round it must have clipped something and it detonated into about a billion cubes of glass, as all 'good' toughened glass things do and I'm left holding a metal handle and my feet are buried in glass.
The Floor is also a large metal air grille, and not only are broken cubes of glass _everywhere_ they're now under the raised floor.
No way I can pick all that up by hand... so I stole the cleaner's Henry hoover from the hallway and plugged it in to a conveniently placed socket and proceed to hoover up everything I can reach (which was problably only 30% of it).
When I finish up, I think "it's a bit quieter in here than when I started.."
I see an AS/400 with no light on, odd.. I think and then I realise the Henry the hoover is plugged into the socket next to it and it's pre EU regulations power rating must have tripped a breaker somewhere that I don't have access to.
Make some calls, nobody knows who owns that AS/400 or what it does. Until the following day, when it turns out it was quite important to a high st. retailer and there were some creative excuses made.
Apologies if you're having to do anything under the floor in Telehouse North as I'm sure the glass is still there.. It was me!