• Sean Kearney (Friday Funny Guy) (unregistered) in reply to Just Kelly

    I guess in a sense you can say security's gone to crap... :)

  • VooDoo288 (unregistered)

    Maybe the seats will be a bit warmer in the winter.

  • Jack (unregistered)

    Jack Picks this as the server room with the most Up and Down and UP and DOWN time....as it gets on the same cycle as the rest of the women in the office!

  • John (unregistered)

    couldnt it just be a door that opens into the restroom from the server room?

  • Beryllium (unregistered)

    Alright, I'll admit it. I've done this before ... the following photo was taken in a server room whose only access-point is through the women's washroom.

    I get extra bonus-points for the super high quality of the rack itself, too.

    [image]

    Notice that the 2x4s raise the rack from the cement floor, in the event that the toilet floods.

    (It stayed like this for at least six months, and finally got moved to a real rack in another building - now, that server room only houses the PBX and a fibre switch)

  • Shamil (unregistered)

    I feel sorry for the surprisingly mistaken handicapped souls who gotta go like a race horse. Someone should keep that room locked.

    Now when working on the server can be hard when some decent ladies drop some scuds.

  • Death (unregistered) in reply to Elliot

    This seems to be typical. The last place I worked for had a descent server room but no storage space for IT, so when us in IT could no longer be seen behind boxes and cables in our room we were granted a storage space, an unused shower room on the same floor, complete with a water trap that when allowed to dry out started to let in the most horrible stench from the sewage... So you need a mask if you needed to take a DEEP breath before diving for something if that room had been undisturbed for few weeks...

  • Nick (unregistered)

    They should just fire all the male IT Support folks that need access to the room and hire all women, solving the issue of having to have a OPEN\CLOSED sign! :)

  • Rob (unregistered)

    Gives new meaning to the term 'flushing dns'

    Hope the server backups don't cause the toilets to do the same.

  • Josh (unregistered) in reply to Luis
    Luis:
    Is this the same Jen Frickell, owner of the legendary Frickcam?

    Yes.

  • Dak (unregistered)

    Good Lord, is this company in Omaha?

    I worked for a steel company in Omaha as a LAN Admin. I decided that our current server was far to dusty of an environment for our three servers and requested we find another space.

    The own of the company decided to move it to the room next door of the server room, in, you got it, a woman's restroom. Granted the restroom was no longer used, but fully functional and far better air conditioned then the dusty server room, plus, if I had to pee while in the server room, I could turn right around and use the functioning toilet.

    I didn't stick around with that job long though, the boss was an obnoxious abusive prick, and I as much told him that the day he came ranting at me about a silly desktop problem that we'd been over many times (he kept kicking his power plug loose, and this was my fault). Needless to say, my comments got me fired, but I walked out of that place with a huge smile on my face, and laughter, wondering what the next LAN Admin would think of the new server room

  • Barbecue King (unregistered)

    Why does everyone keep sending back their meals? I smother the succulent ribs in my most delicious barbecue sauce ever, yet they send them back time after time. You wait, they'll pay. I'm working up the meanest, tangiest, sauciest sauce ever. They'll eat it. They'll beg me for more. You'll see.

  • Brad Gorzitza (unregistered) in reply to Just Kelly

    Hey, anybody remember the TV show Ally McBeal? Didn't one of the main characters end up building himself a little hidey hole office behind one of the walls in the co-ed bathroom? (He was the one with the remote toilet flusher because he "always liked a fresh bowl".)

    Strange how life imitates art. :-)

  • Me (unregistered)

    I set this up about 3 weeks ago....talk about running out of room

    [image] [image]
  • anonymous (unregistered)

    I have a similar situation. The server room where I work is quite small and needed extra storage space. The only direction it could expand was toward the bathrooms. Fortunately the adjacent bathroom had a attached room with an unused shower. The wall was simply knocked out between the shower and server room and the door from the bathroom to the shower was locked. The shower stall was never removed and still stands to this very day.

  • Smoucher (unregistered)

    This story stinks

  • J. Neil Hammitt (unregistered)

    This situation gives a whole new meaning the the Tools Drop Down.

  • Enigma (unregistered) in reply to Dave

    BUWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

    GHET-TO!!!

    wow.

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to Just Kelly

    We have a wire closet located above a bathroom. You can only access it through a square trap door like you have at home. It's always a little annoying when I have to wait for someone to exit the bathroom just so I can patch in a pc or something. Never mind the smell.

  • frita (unregistered)

    Oh, that would be bad in my company. I would get caught giving my married boyfriend "treats" after hours.

  • dv (unregistered) in reply to frita

    No one ever uses the ladies room in my data center, so we never get caught, hehe

  • Just Me (unregistered) in reply to Just Kelly

    Don't you mean "LAN POTTY!!!" ?

  • Ray (unregistered) in reply to frickell

    Frickell...

    It's been some time since I read your stories and viewed your cam shots. That wreck you were in years ago was quite interesting....not to mention all your hair style changes <grin>. Are you still posting?

    Hope you are well...and be careful out there in bathroom server land.

  • (cs) in reply to amischiefr
    amischiefr:
    I could just imagine the lawsuit now: Nerdy Server admin was caught today with an elaborate peeping tom setup. He had apparently drilled three holes through the wall and was recording women using the restroom from a server room located in the ladies handicap stall...

    and was recording women in the server room while using the handicap stall in the ladies restroom...

    fixed that for you

  • Roger (unregistered)

    Boy, I bet new server install days or troubleshooting strange hardware failures is going to be great fun for the ladies! Hope they can hold it!

  • Steve (unregistered)

    What if there is a serious plumbing problem or a major server issue or adding new equipment, etc? Not to mention the major security issues this brings up. This is about the dumbest solution I have ever seen. What a bunch of bone-heads!

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

    lol. you made my day :D

  • Jim (unregistered) in reply to Grump

    LOL

  • Larry (unregistered) in reply to Just Kelly

    Something about a L-anal-yzer came to mind and a sniffer ran through my head. Both had promising punch lines but it's too early.

    Larry

    http://www.damnineedajob.com

  • dlm (unregistered)

    Looks like a good place to take a tcpDUMP.

  • Paleogeek (unregistered)

    My wife used to teach chemistry at a nearby women's college. She talked a local pharma company into donating an NMR to the school and arranged with the facilities dept. to have it installed in an under-utilized room in the building the science dept shared with the Home Economics Dept. Imagine her surprise when the Home Ec dept (the 800 lb gorilla on campus) talked the facilities folks into installing it instead in a bathroom, up against a radiator so that they could continue using the other room for their weekly tea parties. My wife resigned at the end of the semester.

  • Dario (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!!!

    LOL
  • (cs) in reply to LordInfidel
    LordInfidel:
    Now sure how I feel about someone bogarting on my idea.

    My own 'personal' office at home (by personal i mean my wife does not even use it), does, yes, have a functioning toilet and a sink.

    And if you are asking yourself why; I built it that way on purpose for the long long work nights.

    Nothing like walking 5 feet to take a whiz while still being able to look at your monitor.

    You may call me insane, i call myself a multi-tasker that is just optimizing his time.

    Are you paid for your long nights?

  • John (unregistered) in reply to Dave

    I believe this is the building owned by Michael Robertson. As all his companies started to shrink, he moved them all downstairs. This is typical of Robertson.

  • (cs) in reply to Nic
    Nic:
    And that's why we don't put Windows in our server rooms.

    So you are using UNIX for transparency?

  • The Linzor (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!!!

    xD

    That's priceless! I like that Lan party...xD

  • Alan T (unregistered) in reply to Just Kelly

    Let's hope there's no upgrades need doing in the server room that keep the CLOSED sign up for many hours at a time.

  • Hal O'Brien (unregistered) in reply to Just Kelly
    Damn! Our secret's out!

    You can't fool me. This is a much bigger secret.

    See, I've always said the reason women go to the rest room in multiples is because there are keylocks on opposite walls to activate the secret computerized women's communications network. I'm picturing of a setup kind of like the one in missile silos (think of the movie Wargames) -- it takes all the keys turning simultaneously to activate the system.

    Now, at last, we have photographic proof. Or Photoshopped, at the very least. :)

  • Mike Acas (unregistered) in reply to Grump

    gives new meaning to the phrase "Our server took a shit".

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  • NoOne (unregistered)

    How would you like to be the person using the bathroom wondering what this weird door in front of you leads to?

  • Arimmus (unregistered) in reply to Grump

    you could be debugging a core dump while yourself taking a dump though...

  • overflow (unregistered)

    What happens if the Women's B-Room has a leak/overflow? eek! I hope Jen has moved the servers up a few U's in the racks :P

    PS, the Core Dump post was lollers.

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