Do Not Hire Liberal Arts Majors for Technical Work
Their malfunction report will read something like:
"As the drive span(sic) up, it stopped working."
The complete lack of awareness of cause and effect - demonstrated by moving the faulty disk pack from drive to drive - is almost as astounding as the idea the bean counters wouldn't go to General Quarters over the near simultaneous failure of several thousands of dollars worth of separate pieces of equipment.
All because Sysop Jr feared a tongue lashing for not having games ready to play? Gimme a break!
This tale smells suspiciously like Limburger Cheese gone bad.