• darth frits (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    frits:
    Yeah, Oookaaay. Like he'd have any chance against a master of Jeet-Kun-Do.
    True, a master whose training consists of carrying workstations with his chubby, is still, technically, a master.

    Add his experience in Ancient Rod technique, and you've got yourself a top-notch fighting machine.

    I find your sexual innuendo disturbing.

  • Bit (unregistered)
    Someplace among the construction equipment, Chris had scavenged a five-foot long metal bar. He spent his lunch break doing his best impression of the "Star Wars Kid".

    I had a co-worker like that once, except his skills were on the level of the offspring of Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee.

    We'd watch him during lunch breaks and the staff would just be a blur. Occasionally, someone would "spar" with him, which means that the fool end up swinging wildly at the air while our co-worker would stop full-speed strikes an inch or so from the bridge of their nose.

  • Paul (unregistered)
    Chris's clumsiness, lack of caution, and general incompetence caused no less than five major outages and destroyed a few thousand dollars worth of equipment.
    But who hasn't done this a time or two? Right? Right???
  • darth frits (unregistered) in reply to Bit
    Bit:
    Someplace among the construction equipment, Chris had scavenged a five-foot long metal bar. He spent his lunch break doing his best impression of the "Star Wars Kid".

    I had a co-worker like that once...the offspring of Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee.

    We'd watch...the staff...swinging wildly at the air...an inch or so from the...nose.

    I find your innuendo disturbing.

  • Nick (unregistered)

    Am I the only one that envisioned comic book man from the Simpsons? “Worst internship ever.”

  • foo (unregistered) in reply to Power Troll
    Power Troll:
    On a serious note, the misuse of the comma (should be semicolon after tripped) totally killed my interest in the rest of the story.
    Wow; never heard someone get so upset about a single dot: What are you; a C compiler?

    OK; what would you expect on a serious note by a power troll :::

  • Jules Winnfield (unregistered) in reply to Gary Olson
    Ah, nepotism. The ninth layer of the network model. Always useful for creating outages in all the other layers.

    Nepotism! The cornerstone of any "worse than failure".

  • FatherStorm (unregistered)

    Great. Now Chris can put Multiple Enterprise-level Server Deployments on his resume...

    captcha= oppeto: meet| encounter; perish

  • (cs)

    I don't get it.

    So the internet was a klutz. Big deal, you hired him for his computer skills, not his dexterity. (Ok you hired him because the boss told you to.)

    You asked the guy if he ever ran a web server, then you made him move one. He was a software guy, not a hardware guy.

    The WTF seems to me the staff laughed at him for his Daffy Duck staff skills, and tripping with a cup of coffee in his hands.

  • foo (unregistered) in reply to chrismcb
    chrismcb:
    I don't get it.

    So the internet was a klutz.

    Most people don't get it. We are all very confused.

  • the beholder (unregistered) in reply to chrismcb
    chrismcb:
    I don't get it.

    So the internet was a klutz.

    Out of curiosity, what's your name again? Nevermind that, just tell us whether you fight JKD or not.

    [the Internet was a klutz? And what about the CEO's moronic son?]

  • (cs) in reply to Paul
    Paul:
    Chris's clumsiness, lack of caution, and general incompetence caused no less than five major outages and destroyed a few thousand dollars worth of equipment.
    But who hasn't done this a time or two? Right? Right???
    It is true that "Experience is proportional to the amount of equipment ruined", but it's never a good idea to make a habit of it!
  • Cheong (unregistered)

    I would throw him away from server room the moment seeing him neglecting the warning of "no food and drink".

    IMO, you should never eat or drink anything near production equipments. If you need to eat or drink, you should go to pantry. I can't tolarate this kind of action that just as people can't tolarate people pissing in the office area...

  • @moldor (unregistered)

    Funny, this "Chris" sounds remarkably like a looser that works for Fairfax Publishing in Sydney, named "Craig"

  • Forumtroll (unregistered) in reply to vrkn
    vrkn:
    had one of those chris' at my work. Apperently, an Intel core i7-940 fits in more then one way in the socket. Caused us to need to order a new motherboard and a new CPU.

    I find it somewhat hard to belive that above mentioned jewel was missed by so many of you foul comm^H^H^H^Hchris^H^H^H^H^Hpeople.

  • Ge (unregistered)

    Why things got any further than claiming IE to be a web server, is beyond me.

  • (cs) in reply to Forumtroll
    Forumtroll:
    I find it somewhat hard to belive that above mentioned jewel was missed by so many of you foul comm^H^H^H^Hchris^H^H^H^H^Hpeople.

    Next time, you might want to investigate what ^W is for. You're welcome.

    (Mis-)fitting a CPU in the socket is not much of a wtf. Typical "if it doesn't fit, I'm not using enough force on it" that allows RJ-45/USB port interchangeability.

  • (cs) in reply to DocBrown
    DocBrown:
    Forumtroll:
    I find it somewhat hard to belive that above mentioned jewel was missed by so many of you foul comm^H^H^H^Hchris^H^H^H^H^Hpeople.

    Next time, you might want to investigate what ^W is for.

    But ^W means delete one word back - so he uses ^H to remove incomplete words.

  • Brendan (unregistered)

    We had a bad experience with an intern who was the son of a friend of the MD who was studying first year engineering. Our big mistake when discovering that he was useless at everything was assuming he would at least be able to wire a plug. (This was in his last few weeks.)

    We had just received a batch of new PC's and we needed to replace the original plugs on the power calbes with dedicated plug (We have three prong plugs around here and for the dedicated PC circuit the ground prong was shaved off and had to fit in a special plug socket to prevent people plugging their own appliances in.)

    Anyway, after he accomplished this task over the course of about two weeks (There were about 70-80 plugs that needed to be replaced) we noticed weird power outages occuring and a number of the new PC's blew their PSU's. It took a while for us to figure out the problem. This wannabe electrical engineer didn't know how to wire a plug properly. He randomly selected where he would wire the ground, positive and negative wires in the plug. He'd strip the insulation so randomly and badly that the different wires were touching and short circuiting.

    Being the junior guy at the time it was my job to check every single plug again and redo each one.

    It didn't take long for him to flunk out of school and his first stop was to daddy who came straight to our MD who almost fired our department head for refusing to hire him.

    Fun times.

  • Bene (unregistered)

    What's up with the unicorns from cornify.js?

  • Roger (unregistered) in reply to Bene
    Bene:
    What's up with the unicorns from cornify.js?
    Only gay people see them. Or people whose browsers are configured to say "please, every random stranger on the internet, fuck me hard" (enable javascript) so like I said, only gays.
  • Someone who can't be bothered to login from work (unregistered) in reply to gero
    gero:
    What's a server closet?

    It's what you call the room you keep your servers in when its size means that calling it a "data centre" is a bit pretentious.

    Or in one of my friend's house it was literally a closet with servers in.

  • the doctor (unregistered) in reply to LANMind
    LANMind:
    Arvo Pentti:
    Stupid and fake story.

    What's your objection - the nepotism, or the incompetent intern?

    Wait, are you an intern related to management? Oh then, nevermind; this is a totally made up story that you should forget all about. And tell your uncle that all the employees like and respect him!

    and go on a diet ffs!

  • FatherStorm (unregistered) in reply to Someone who can't be bothered to login from work

    As it is in my house. the closet closest to my main desk holds cable modem, router, switches, printers, scanner, and extra set of monitor, mouse, keyboard for connecting machines for repair/diagnostics.

    captcha: wisi, "WiSi is a small little tool for resizing windows to fixed values."

  • Jeff (unregistered) in reply to FatherStorm
    FatherStorm:
    "WiSi is a small little tool for resizing windows to fixed values."
    Oops, I've misplaced my handy dandy conversion chart. Is "small little" a gigabyte these days, or what?
  • Jeff (unregistered) in reply to Jeff
    Jeff:
    FatherStorm:
    "WiSi is a small little tool for resizing windows to fixed values."
    Oops, I've deleted my handy dandy conversion chart applet, to free up some disk space. Is "small little" a gigabyte these days, or what?
    FTFM
  • KittyKat (unregistered)

    Why do I suspect, that this guy's never been hacked or got a virus, meant he had a load of 'hardware failures' his dad had to replace?

  • Neville Flynn (unregistered) in reply to Gary Olson
    Gary Olson:
    Ah, nepotism. The ninth layer of the network model. Always useful for creating outages in all the other layers.

    This begs the question, what's the 8th layer?

  • Steve (unregistered)

    Ugh... sounds made up. I've worked with a lot of morons before, but companies have generally gotten rid of them REAL fast. Had 2 people in my company that weren't half as bad as this and gone in less then 2 weeks.

  • Not (unregistered) in reply to Neville Flynn
    Neville Flynn:
    Gary Olson:
    Ah, nepotism. The ninth layer of the network model. Always useful for creating outages in all the other layers.

    This begs the question, what's the 8th layer?

    Chocolate

  • Clumsy Kid (unregistered)

    This is not the greatest post. Mostly because really, Chris was just some poor kid that really didn't know any better. There was no maliciousness in any of his actions, but the entire post does nothing but make fun of him.

    It reads like a bully making fun of the poor clumsy nerdy kid.

  • (cs) in reply to Steve
    Steve:
    Ugh... sounds made up. I've worked with a lot of morons before, but companies have generally gotten rid of them REAL fast. Had 2 people in my company that weren't half as bad as this and gone in less then 2 weeks.
    Was either of those two people the big bossman's son?
  • (cs) in reply to Brendan
    Brendan:
    We had just received a batch of new PC's and we needed to replace the original plugs on the power calbes with dedicated plug (We have three prong plugs around here and for the dedicated PC circuit the ground prong was shaved off and had to fit in a special plug socket to prevent people plugging their own appliances in.)

    What.

    Even assuming that the problem of people plugging their space heaters and such into the UPS-backed PC circuit couldn't be better addressed without requiring custom power sockets, I can't fathom how defeating a safety feature and making every PC chassis a potential shock hazard could be considered an appropriate solution.

    I can't really fault (pun intended) the intern for doing a bad job when asked to do something bad.

  • Johnny come lately (unregistered) in reply to Slumberjack
    Slumberjack:
    Indec:
    Why do I think Homer Simpson and the inanimate copper rod?

    For crying out loud, it was an inanimate CARBON rod!

    My, my, why would such a small mistake upset you such. Tightly strung?

  • (cs) in reply to Neville Flynn
    Neville Flynn:
    Gary Olson:
    Ah, nepotism. The ninth layer of the network model. Always useful for creating outages in all the other layers.

    This begs the question, what's the 8th layer?

    Frugality, of course. All information coming from the Application layer has to pass through the Frugality layer, which consists of 6 year old workstations and cheap LCD monitors with flaky power supplies.

  • IP Freely (unregistered) in reply to Cheong
    Cheong:
    I would throw him away from server room the moment seeing him neglecting the warning of "no food and drink".

    IMO, you should never eat or drink anything near production equipments. If you need to eat or drink, you should go to pantry. I can't tolarate this kind of action that just as people can't tolarate people pissing in the office area...

    Noone has ever had issues with me pissing in the office - or at least noone's ever had the balls to stop me....(me got martial arts too)

  • abi cop (unregistered) in reply to IP Freely
    IP Freely:
    Cheong:
    I would throw him away from server room the moment seeing him neglecting the warning of "no food and drink".

    IMO, you should never eat or drink anything near production equipments. If you need to eat or drink, you should go to pantry. I can't tolarate this kind of action that just as people can't tolarate people pissing in the office area...

    Noone has ever had issues with me pissing in the office - or at least noone's ever had the balls to stop me....(me got martial arts too)

    Single and self-employed?

  • fermion (unregistered)

    The moral of this story is...

    A child process should not throw a java exception while connected to a named pipe or the system might be forked.

  • Brendan (unregistered) in reply to Rootbeer
    Rootbeer:
    Brendan:
    We had just received a batch of new PC's and we needed to replace the original plugs on the power calbes with dedicated plug (We have three prong plugs around here and for the dedicated PC circuit the ground prong was shaved off and had to fit in a special plug socket to prevent people plugging their own appliances in.)

    What.

    Even assuming that the problem of people plugging their space heaters and such into the UPS-backed PC circuit couldn't be better addressed without requiring custom power sockets, I can't fathom how defeating a safety feature and making every PC chassis a potential shock hazard could be considered an appropriate solution.

    I can't really fault (pun intended) the intern for doing a bad job when asked to do something bad.

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    boog:
    It seems to me that the long metal bar could have easily served as a disciplinary implement.
    Beside Chris's head was a sign that read, "ABSOLUTELY NO FOOD OR DRINK IN THIS ROOM."

    "Hey, I brought you some coffee," Chris said.

    Rob reached for the metal bar that was propped in a corner behind some equipment. "DIE DIE DIE!!"

    Yeah, Oookaaay. Like he'd have any chance against a master of Jeet-Kun-Do.

    Chris thinks he is learning Leet-Kun-Do!

  • fake me (unregistered) in reply to fermion
    fermion:
    The moral of this story is...

    A child process should not throw a java exception while connected to a named pipe or the system might be forked.

    The pipe had a name? It gets worse and worse!

  • (cs) in reply to Rootbeer
    Rootbeer:
    Brendan:
    We had just received a batch of new PC's and we needed to replace the original plugs on the power calbes with dedicated plug (We have three prong plugs around here and for the dedicated PC circuit the ground prong was shaved off and had to fit in a special plug socket to prevent people plugging their own appliances in.)

    What.

    Even assuming that the problem of people plugging their space heaters and such into the UPS-backed PC circuit couldn't be better addressed without requiring custom power sockets, I can't fathom how defeating a safety feature and making every PC chassis a potential shock hazard could be considered an appropriate solution.

    I can't really fault (pun intended) the intern for doing a bad job when asked to do something bad.

    I assume (from the "we have three prong plugs around here" comment) that the ground pin was shaved to make it smaller, and fitted into a custom three pin socket which preserved the safety feature...

  • delenn it (unregistered) in reply to random_garbage
    random_garbage:
    Rootbeer:
    Brendan:
    We had just received a batch of new PC's and we needed to replace the original plugs on the power calbes with dedicated plug (We have three prong plugs around here and for the dedicated PC circuit the ground prong was shaved off and had to fit in a special plug socket to prevent people plugging their own appliances in.)

    What.

    Even assuming that the problem of people plugging their space heaters and such into the UPS-backed PC circuit couldn't be better addressed without requiring custom power sockets, I can't fathom how defeating a safety feature and making every PC chassis a potential shock hazard could be considered an appropriate solution.

    I can't really fault (pun intended) the intern for doing a bad job when asked to do something bad.

    I assume (from the "we have three prong plugs around here" comment) that the ground pin was shaved to make it smaller, and fitted into a custom three pin socket which preserved the safety feature...

    Some plugs have a "redundant" ground pin..

  • (cs) in reply to delenn it
    delenn it:
    random_garbage:
    Rootbeer:
    Brendan:
    We had just received a batch of new PC's and we needed to replace the original plugs on the power calbes with dedicated plug (We have three prong plugs around here and for the dedicated PC circuit the ground prong was shaved off and had to fit in a special plug socket to prevent people plugging their own appliances in.)

    What.

    Even assuming that the problem of people plugging their space heaters and such into the UPS-backed PC circuit couldn't be better addressed without requiring custom power sockets, I can't fathom how defeating a safety feature and making every PC chassis a potential shock hazard could be considered an appropriate solution.

    I can't really fault (pun intended) the intern for doing a bad job when asked to do something bad.

    I assume (from the "we have three prong plugs around here" comment) that the ground pin was shaved to make it smaller, and fitted into a custom three pin socket which preserved the safety feature...

    Some plugs don't have a ground pin.

    FTFY

  • (cs) in reply to Roger
    Roger:
    Bene:
    What's up with the unicorns from cornify.js?
    Only gay people see them. Or people whose browsers are configured to say "please, every random stranger on the internet, fuck me hard" (enable javascript) so like I said, only gays.
    Interestingly, you only need to be worried about getting anally raped by javascript if you surf gay porn. If I were you, I'd be very careful.
  • (cs) in reply to Clumsy Kid
    Clumsy Kid:
    This is not the greatest post. Mostly because really, Chris was just some poor kid that really didn't know any better. There was no maliciousness in any of his actions, but the entire post does nothing but make fun of him.

    It reads like a bully making fun of the poor clumsy nerdy kid.

    That is what we do all the time. Or are you accusing all the WTF'ers on this site of being evil geniuses rather than the dumbasses they are?

    Chris opened himself up to this when he applied for a job he was in no way qualified for. Which is precisely what this site is all about.

  • (cs) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    Chris opened himself up to this when he applied for a job he was in no way qualified for. Which is precisely what this site is all about.
    You mean when daddy created a position at his work, so that the "poor kid" (as the GP calls him) could add "summer internship" to his resume.

    I'm amazed that some people (not you) are defending him; Chris apparently left a path of destruction and was never even reprimanded. Chris is TRWTF, and he deserves our disdain.

  • drusi (unregistered) in reply to Randy Snicker
    Randy Snicker:
    gero:
    What's a server closet?
    Where the maid is kept.
    I can't wait until we have androids so this can actually be true.
  • Anon Too (unregistered)

    An intern walks into a bar and yells ouch.... it was an iron bar!

    Apologies to Tommy Cooper

  • James (unregistered) in reply to Rootbeer

    Maybe by "ground pin shaved off", he means the ground pin is a different shape? I've seen this in a few circumstances, here the ground pin is flat (AS/NZS 3112), in server cabinets you occasionally see such sockets with a round earth pin. From what he was saying it sounds like there is certainly a ground conductor connected.

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