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I can remember my huge fuckups on a few fingers of one hand.

I'm not implying there are few of them, more like they each have a dedicated finger, and I remember them and the cold sweat feel of each specific one.

The first one was decades ago. There was a server room. They had a hardcopy printer in there, and behind it was a big red mushroom button that shut down the whole room. It was about head level if you were looking behind the printer...




I witnessed a similar one. The big box had an emergency power-off switch in back that stuck out. Our operator was dealing with cabling behind the big box, and when he stood up, his belt caught the switch. Oops.




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