At the big data center where this pilot fish works, they’re always pulling new cables under the floor — and the space is so stuffed that if someone pulls up a tile to access a plug or a cable, getting the tile back in place can mean jumping up and down on it to get it to re-seat.

“It was the week I was on call, and at 5 a.m. I got a call that we had lost power to half of our system drive,” fish says.

“The system was both hardware and software redundant, so we didn’t lose any processing, but we needed to have someone come out and check it out.”

So at 8 a.m. fish, the vendor’s repair tech, the computer room supervisor and the facilities manager are all in the computer room to figure out what happened.

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