Toggle power switch
This story is strikingly similar to an anecdote from colleagues at a previous job, when one of the ops guys went to power off a server and was informed as he pressed the switch that it was the wrong machine. Although in roughly the same time period, I'm certain its not the same incident because out site never ran SAP.
The box in question was running end-of-day batch processing, so could not be allowed to power off otherwise carnage would be caused.
Unfortunately the recessed nature of the switch meant that nothing could be jammed in to replace his finger without also releasing the button at the same time - so he was forced to stand there in the comms room for the next two hours or so, with the end of his finger going blue, waiting for the batches to finish so that the machine could be gracefully shut down.
In a separate incident, another colleague at the same site had apparently stepped into a hole in the floor of the comms room where a tile had been removed ('elfin safety??) - reached out instinctively to stop his fall, but found he'd hit the emergency power-off button on the side of the AS/400 ... oops!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
