Amateurs
Real untangling needs to be done under the floor of a comms room 4 feet by 3 feet.
There must be a minimum of 2 inches of dust on the floor and around the bottom of the rack and walls, you know that weird "furry" stuff that looks like iron filings on magnet.
It should be at least 30 degrees C and the Air Conditionings only function is to blow more hot air, dust and dead spiders into the room.
The only light should come from a 10 year old 60 watt light bulb mounted in just the right way above the rack as to fully illuminate the top panel of the rack but leave the rest of the room and the sides of the rack in complete darkness.
There should be at least 10 live mains cables tangled in with the cat 5.
Your torch should have been fitted with already dead batteries and will last no more than 20 seconds (enough time to get into a tight turn just under the floor).
The comms room will also have been used by the maintenance staff to store their broken fluorescent tubes and there will be tiny shards of glass everywhere, not big enough to see or remove with your fingers, but just the right size to cause sharp, stabbing pain when you lean your hand on it.
Untangling should be performed just as lunchtime starts so as your colleagues walk past the comms room door on their way to a nice lunch they can see you slowly turning into the creature from the black lagoon as you get covered in sweat, dirt, spiders, dust, glass and more dust.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
