Who, Me? Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button
A "Who, Me?" reader-contributed column from The Register recounts an early-2000s incident at a Glasgow datacentre, where a technician named "Vince" was sent to perform routine server maintenance, including a hard reboot. He mistakenly pressed the power button on an adjacent external disk storage array instead of the server itself, realising his error only after making contact.
Rather than release the button and risk an unplanned outage, Vince kept his finger held down until colleagues arrived to find him stuck. The tech team reportedly took their time enjoying the spectacle, including some teasing and tickling, before the boss agreed to shut the server down under the pretext of "urgent maintenance", finally freeing Vince from his predicament.
- Technician accidentally held down a storage array's power button
- Colleagues laughed before staging a fake "urgent maintenance" fix
- Anecdote from The Register's reader-submitted "Who, Me?" column