• JohnMc (unregistered)

    Actually that's not bad. I wonder if the server admins dates ratio has increased any?

    However I have one better. I was working for a firm back in the late 80's as a field tech. One of my clients was a regional hospital. One of their major wiring closets also doubled as the temporary storage facility for amputated body parts. Needless to say it was not something I liked.

  • David Pellegrini (unregistered)

    First it's outsourcing ... now we have outhousing? Where will it end?

  • Snala (unregistered) in reply to Just Kelly
    Just Kelly:
    Dave:
    I always knew womens restrooms were nicer than what we guys got. Now I see they have server rooms in there too?!?!

    Damn! Our secret's out!

    Oh, well. At least now you know why we all go in at once.

    LAN PARTY!!!

    Best reply ever!

  • X-911 Tech (unregistered)

    One of the police stations I serviced had it's server room through a door in the back of the prisoner cells. They had to cuff, and place anyone in custody into a police car while any of the 9-1-1 techs were using the "facilities".

    Sucks to be a prisoner... or a technician.

  • xgermx (unregistered) in reply to Grump

    major TCP/IPee

  • moose (unregistered) in reply to Grump

    hahahahahhaha...

    452 bazillion points.. i just shot half a gin and tonic out my nose

  • John (unregistered)

    Been there done that... Sam Houston State University (who by the way has an amazing datacenter that I am proud to say I helped set up) has at least one data closet (housing switches and patch panels) accessible only from a women's restroom.
    I can't count the times I cautiously knocked on that door identifying myself as I.T. not sure whether I wanted to hear a response or not. It was a catch-22. If you hear a response, at least you don't have to worry about walking in on someone, however then you have to deal with the awkward looks as they exit. You know they're wondering "why the heck is I.T. trying to get in the Women's bathroom" but it's not like you can just explain to them unless they ask. If you don't hear a response you always worry there's an occupant who's too shy to respond. Lucky for us (and the sometime occupants of those restrooms) there were never any "incidents." Either way, since we had no female network technicians, such was the situation. Glad to know someone else has been there.

  • James (unregistered)

    I once replaced a cisco router that was in a big plywood cupboard, in the middle of a woman's redline changing room, in a cheese factory...

    I'm not sure what was more WTF, the location of the cupboard, or the state of the cupboard (the cupboard was full of typical rarely attended equipment cabinet dust, and the idea of a redline area is to keep bad stuff out of critical hygiene areas)

  • tyler (unregistered) in reply to Just Kelly

    Hah! I knew it!

  • Dlareg (unregistered) in reply to Just Kelly
    Just Kelly:

    Damn! Our secret's out!

    Oh, well. At least now you know why we all go in at once.

    LAN PARTY!!!

    You do have some nice stuff there: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/536511/ladies_room/

    :)

    btw what is an sagaciter? Someone who's cites all of let's say starwars?

  • (cs) in reply to Anon.
    Anon.:
    anonymouse:
    And the google ad is for "toilet partition hardware"
    Can we make a C: toilet and D: toilet with it?

    No, it's a share. Better make it a \bathroom\server...

  • (cs) in reply to kEVIN
    kEVIN:
    Elliot:
    Just off frame is a toilet.

    That's what I call convenience.

    Just like in the cartoons.

  • (cs) in reply to moose
    moose:
    hahahahahhaha...

    452 bazillion points.. i just shot half a gin and tonic out my nose

    Which half was it, the gin or the tonic?

  • (cs) in reply to Landy
    Landy:
    Where I work we have some network switches in the woman's restroom out in the shop because that is the only place that is air conditioned.

    Gotta knock before you go in to work on the networking gear. At least the gear is inside a locked rack in the corner.

    Is there not something like an anti-discrimination law? Air-conditioning only for women? And why can men not have the network switches?

  • (cs) in reply to Michael
    Michael:
    Didn't I play through a stage like this in Deus Ex?

    http://www.visualwalkthroughs.com/deusex/airfield1/airfield1.htm#43

    One of the men's restrooms plays a large role, as well.

  • Bob; (unregistered) in reply to Just Kelly

    I noticed that there is no lock on the server room door. So anyone accessing the 'restroom' can also access the server room. At least they could have put a secure door on it. Assuming that it could be a light's out operation, in some way, it makes perfect sense. :-)

  • (cs) in reply to frustrati
    frustrati:
    [b]Pedantic a&&hole[b] alert: "The only available wall to install a door was adjacent to the women's restroom. Inside the handicapped stall." So the handicapped stall was adjacent to the women's toilet?

    FTFY.

  • (cs) in reply to JoeBloggs
    JoeBloggs:
    What's that smell?:
    Myth:
    Men are getting ripped off, I demand a Wii be installed in the urinals.

    ABOVE the urninal would be good, not sure about IN...

    In, PLEASE!

    Seconded. That has to be the most relaxing way ever to play Ping.

    Then you can go "next door" and play Pong.

  • (cs) in reply to dsevil

    Don't forget to rotate the logs.

  • Network Geek (unregistered)

    Well, I had something almost as bad... One place I worked at, with a female IT department head, the only way to get to our satellite uplink to our service bureau (Alltel), was through the men's room, next to the urinals. And, I'm on the Gulf Coast, where constant tropical storms and hurricanes required emergency access to that satlink on a regular basis. The first time she asked me to walk her to the room, I thought she was joking!

  • stoopit (unregistered) in reply to Just Kelly

    Flushing all the toilets at the same time will reboot the server?

  • (cs)

    Sucks to be a handicapped woman having her moment just as administrators need to troubleshoot a hanged server.

  • Albion (unregistered) in reply to Just Kelly

    Our server room door is in the Men's room. Our female network staff have to coordinate wait for the all clear. This room is also one of our phone closets.

  • Hello Kitty (unregistered)

    Coming soon: employee housing ... trailers.

  • Dan (unregistered)

    Wait, THE Jen Frickell? she's the reason I decided to became a sysadmin well over a decade ago!

  • chx (unregistered)

    Remember all those wacky films where there was a secret agency hidden behind a normal-looking door in a nondescript office? Reminds me of those. Imagine the lady in the stall seeing another, locked door -- she would presume it's a closet for cleaning stuff. Nope! It's the entry to another TLA agency ...

  • (cs) in reply to Dan
    Dan:
    Wait, THE Jen Frickell? she's the reason I decided to became a sysadmin well over a decade ago!

    No, no, no. Don't you dare blame that on me. I have enough bad karma. ;)

  • Dr. Groovy (unregistered)

    Look! They even have toilet paper! Damn!

  • Joe Mama (unregistered) in reply to Grump

    Additional photos of the setup can be seen at www.ITVoyeur.com...

  • GeekMan (unregistered) in reply to Grump

    Don't forget to flush privileges.

  • Tom (unregistered)

    I'd love to submit a picture of ours. Our single stall men's room became our network and web hosting room with the Mens room sign still on the door. Only the toilet was removed...and a T1 jacked installed. Our office now only uses the women's room.

  • Blizz (unregistered) in reply to Grump

    Lmao, clever!

  • (cs) in reply to Just Kelly

    Umm... Kelly... I'm not a gamer, but that was a huge turn-on. Are you single?

  • Nic (unregistered)

    And that's why we don't put Windows in our server rooms.

  • Tony - Network OPs (unregistered) in reply to Dave

    Man... Wiping a drive takes on new meaning for this team.

  • Derek (unregistered) in reply to Grump

    oh my! That would be one bugger of a core dump then!

  • Ryan (unregistered) in reply to Grump
    Grump:
    I'd hate to have to debug a core dump in there.

    Or digging through log files.

  • Leslie Stall (unregistered) in reply to Grump
    Grump:
    I'd hate to have to debug a core dump in there.

    I'd hate to have to purge my disk cache in there. Flushing the buffers could be difficult as well.

  • disgruntled (unregistered) in reply to Elliot

    bathrooms make great server rooms! i'm sure the little stink fan is enough to carry off all the heat you want...

  • tauu (unregistered)

    We used the women's restrooms directly as a server room at a couple of LAN Parties. This was ideal to reduce the noise in the main room and it would have been really seldom used otherwise ;-)

    The view of the first woman, that entered the "server room" was kinda priceless. ;)

  • (cs) in reply to disgruntled
    disgruntled:
    bathrooms make great server rooms! i'm sure the little stink fan is enough to carry off all the heat you want...
    The heat I want has nothing to do with servers, stink fans, or LAN parties.
  • B Stinson (unregistered)

    Brings new meaning to the term Net-Flush.

  • David Oco (unregistered)

    We make a front office server cabinet that looks like furniture but has all the features of a server room built in, and are soundproofed, so these guys could have avoided having to listen to lady-tinkles while they tinker (with their hard-disks). The irony : I know of a customer who installed at least 4 of these in toilet blocks in his building. Genius. http://www.kellsystems.com

  • Sean (unregistered) in reply to Dave

    The PD in Greenville NC is exactly the same, but we didn't have a closed sign for the door >_<

  • Indima (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that they now in effect no longer has a handicapped stall. Prepare to get sued by the pissed off lame persons.

  • Ben (unregistered)

    ladies just make sure you follow the wires from the CCTV server to make sure you're safe

  • J Spinn (unregistered) in reply to Elliot

    I bet their network is CRAP!

  • A Man (unregistered) in reply to Just Kelly

    quote user="Dave"]I always knew womens restrooms were nicer than what we guys got. Now I see they have server rooms in there too?!?![/quote]

    Damn! Our secret's out!

    Oh, well. At least now you know why we all go in at once.

    LAN PARTY!!! quote user="Just Kelly"][ [/quote] Now I know how when a woman empties her brain, how she can reinstall the stuff she lost.[

  • A Man (unregistered)

    Now I know how and where a woman looses her mind, and where she can reinstall the lost data.

  • anon (unregistered)

    is photoshopppped. i can tell by the shadows, i'm a graphic designer.

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