Assaulted
Or had your way to the server room blocked by an impromptu assault course?
Asbestos clearance from the ceiling of the main corridor. We hadn't missed the emails warning about the work that would take place that week, but we all just hoped nothing would go wrong in the secondary server room that we couldn't fix remotely. Naturally, it did, and it happened to be my kit. The clean-up squad made me wear a blue plastic suit with hood and respirator, escorted me through an airlock made from sheets of velcro-ed plastic, constructed another temporary airlock over the server room door and hoovered it out, then gave me a Ziploc bag containing a wet cloth to rub my suit down with before I could open the door. I don't know how much of it they did just to show their annoyance at having their work interrupted, but I was in no position to argue.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
