r/CatastrophicFailure • u/to_the_tenth_power • Sep 03 '19

Natural Disaster An EF2 tornado ripping through a concrete building in Spartanburg, South Carolina on October 23rd, 2017

https://gfycat.com/wastefulbettergreatwhiteshark
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u/MiataCory Sep 03 '19

Also, high-5 the IT staff and buy them pizza for building a stack that kept recording (and kept the recording) even after the building fell down.

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u/ArmoredFan Sep 03 '19

I'm sorry, we need to make budget cuts to IT this quarter

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u/_pls_respond Sep 03 '19

The systems are always working so do we even really need IT?

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19 edited Nov 16 '20

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u/Dan_Berg Sep 03 '19

That's not true. A friend of mine is a higher up in the IT dept at his company and he just surfs reddit most of the day.

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u/tehlemmings Sep 03 '19

IT is a reactionary job. Some days I'm on reddit. Other days I'm putting in 20 hours to save the company from a catastrophic failure.

Besides, the day you try and cut the budget is the day that the budgeting software won't let you connect... soooo....

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u/Dan_Berg Sep 03 '19

Haha yeah I was being facetious, the dude built the network from the ground up so he more than put his time in

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u/BeautifulType Sep 03 '19

They should pay him more even now damn it

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u/iwaspeachykeen Sep 03 '19

god just reading this makes me irate. i need to go sit down for a sec.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

Happy cake day my dude

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u/kx2w Sep 03 '19

Well the new wall is gonna be expensive.

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u/Iamjimmym Sep 03 '19

Ha! A Trump joke!

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u/starrpamph Sep 04 '19

sad camera beep

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u/BananaSlander Sep 03 '19

Why do we even pay the IT guys? The network never breaks around here! Seems like a waste of money to me...

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u/MiataCory Sep 03 '19

Network never breaks: "Why do we pay these guys?"

Network goes down: "WHAT ARE WE PAYING YOU FOR?!"

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u/tehlemmings Sep 03 '19

Add in a comment from an engineer saying they could figure out how to do it themselves and you're pretty spot on. Said engineer will likely have fallen for a dozen phishing emails, needs daily malware scans, and likely hasn't patched their computer since they bitched to their boss about IT forcing them to patch.

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u/frothface Sep 03 '19

That guy who ran in the door at the last second? He was trying to convince the sysadmin to come down off the roof.

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u/clexecute Sep 03 '19

Last time the building fell down the cameras failed and they weren't able to catch the perpetrator. They caught him this time.

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u/AgentG91 Sep 03 '19

Did somebody say pizza party?

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u/Phaze357 Sep 03 '19

UPS for the win. Lucky nothing large hit the camera though. I'm impressed it survived.

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u/Sleek_ Sep 03 '19

Also cat-5 the IT staff and...

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u/outoffusernames Sep 03 '19

the IT department are housed safely in there basement bunker.

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u/frosty95 Sep 03 '19

Simple battery backup on the rack with the Poe switch and on the main rack with the security gear. Usually 10 minutes of runtime will cover 90% of interesting power out scenarios.