No Downtime and for no money.
I've seen all of those and worse, but we can't really blame the current unlucky guy that inherits those nightmares. We've all worked for the "no downtime ever", "no, we have no money for cable, ends, or velcro-straps", "no, we have no money for labels for the 1998 label-maker", and "no overtime to do it on Sunday either".
We all know it was most likely the boss or his cousin/brother that "knows about computers" that got it to that state in the first place.
Everyone wants it done right, but no one want to pay for it, so it never gets fixed.
I had a boss send a pick of a rack we "control" in a small building once. It was in a sorry state, so I told him it would be a minimum of 2 hours of complete downtime for the building and that if he wanted them all to be the same color and length in would cost $3,000. Turns out the rack was just fine the way it was all along. Imagine that.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
