Ok everyone, lets here all your craziest stories you have related to networks at your jobs, at enterprises, etc.
Today I was thinking, whats the worst network job I've had? Hmm one certainly comes in mind.
It was about 8 years ago. I started this new job, the company manufactured/sold Soy Milk products. They were fairly small like 100 employees. Didn't have much money, they were cheap as hell.
So within my first week on the job. All the office employees were complaining their email, and connections to their servers were slow. Come to find out they had all their servers/networking equipment in an adjacent building about 500ft away. I assumed they ran a fiber cable under ground to connect the buildings right? Logic says that. Nope they had this really cheap laser solution! WTF? They had it mounted in a conference room, so that when somebody bumped it, the signal was affected. WOW alrightythen. And this happened quite a bit because they had nowhere else to mount it.
But thats not the kicker. Before I joined they had the really old dude, taking care of all network, etc. The dude was also a major pothead. LOL Yup he would take off all the time, smoke bowls and come back to work. The guy was wacky!
One day I walk into the network room, and I discover all these cat5 RJ45 splitters plugged into the network switches!!l. WTF? I asked him what heck it was for, he told me they didn't have enough drops for some new people in a conference room. When I told him you can't do that man, your gonna create a broadcast storm, overload the switch ports. He got mad at me, and I never got along with him, but luckily he was ready to retire so I didn't have to put up with him much longer.
Eventually this company was bought out by another company, had some cashflow come in, and we moved to another brand new building with an all new properly built network.
Today I was thinking, whats the worst network job I've had? Hmm one certainly comes in mind.
It was about 8 years ago. I started this new job, the company manufactured/sold Soy Milk products. They were fairly small like 100 employees. Didn't have much money, they were cheap as hell.
So within my first week on the job. All the office employees were complaining their email, and connections to their servers were slow. Come to find out they had all their servers/networking equipment in an adjacent building about 500ft away. I assumed they ran a fiber cable under ground to connect the buildings right? Logic says that. Nope they had this really cheap laser solution! WTF? They had it mounted in a conference room, so that when somebody bumped it, the signal was affected. WOW alrightythen. And this happened quite a bit because they had nowhere else to mount it.
But thats not the kicker. Before I joined they had the really old dude, taking care of all network, etc. The dude was also a major pothead. LOL Yup he would take off all the time, smoke bowls and come back to work. The guy was wacky!
One day I walk into the network room, and I discover all these cat5 RJ45 splitters plugged into the network switches!!l. WTF? I asked him what heck it was for, he told me they didn't have enough drops for some new people in a conference room. When I told him you can't do that man, your gonna create a broadcast storm, overload the switch ports. He got mad at me, and I never got along with him, but luckily he was ready to retire so I didn't have to put up with him much longer.
Eventually this company was bought out by another company, had some cashflow come in, and we moved to another brand new building with an all new properly built network.