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Background: I worked in IT support for a major bank somewhere in the UK. This tale is from long before Covid and Working From Home.We'd always taken Disaster Recovery seriously, as long as we had a week's notice of the impending disaster, but that's another tragedy. But after 9/11, we started planning for Business Continuity too - what to do if your workplace is compromised. So we acquired a building on the opposite side of the country, kitted it out and wired it up, and we were all set.The first test was a bit ropey, but we improved with practice and made sure to rotate staff and keep everything written down at the recovery site.Skip forward a couple of years and I got the alert - it's that time and I have to join the other designated survivors across the country. We all make our way to Numbercauld, gain entry to the building and find our desks. Power up our desktops, boot up and connect to the - nothing.That's odd, none of us can connect to the network. One of the network guys has a laptop and dials in, checks that all the network switches have switched. Yup, it's all good, we just can't see it. So he starts following the network cable from his desktop PC, along the floor to the 2ft x 2ft floor tile where all of the cables are concentrated before going underfloor to the switch, lifts the tile...And on the underside saw about 2 inches of each cable protruding into empty space. It was as if someone had taken a pair if shears and just chopped through the lot of them.Which is what had happened.Some months previously, it had been decreed that that floor tile must be moved, I think it was to allow for more desks or something. The guy moving it saw all the wires when he lifted it it and asked what to do about them. "Oh, just remove them," said his boss, meaning "unplug each cable from its socket on the underside of the tile, so that they can be replugged later."But the workman's psychic interface was on the fritz that day and he only heard the words that actually came out of his boss's mouth. Snip-snip!So yeah, we didn't pass the Business Continuity test that day.
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