Pants Full of Unix

1. Schedule maintenance on a PDU in the middle of a day, on a week dayWednesday.
2. When questioned over this obvious risk in the change management meeting by the Director over Windows systems, assure everyone that nothing could go wrong because the circuit is redundant.
3. Permit your electrical contractor to blow a fuse when performing this work at 11:30 US Eastern.
4. Take down all of the production HP-UX Oracle systems, most of the prod SQL Servers, all of the ESX servers in that site, several network core switches, one blade chassis, the OpenView server you assured us you were migrating off a year ago, so we took it off hardware support (which subsequently fails to boot because one of its PSUs has failed), and assorted other prod systems.
5. Rather than acting in your capacity over Operations, establishing a bridge call, and following the documentation your direct reports have created around order of startup after a site failure, permit chaos to run wild for three hours until cooler heads insist on at least a touch of Order.

Why, yes, I did have fuN at work today!