Re: Operations: where are you going to sit?

[Chris Woodfield <rekoil () semihuman com>]

Memories from the Digex/Intermedia NOC...

Ed Kern had a rather large fish tank on the main Network Engineering 
office; and next to it was a whiteboard detailing the instructions for 
feeding and otherwise caring for them. Among the rules...

"Don't tap on the glass. The fish hate that. Just ask the NOC."

-Chris

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:16:34PM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:55:05PM -0500, Steve Meuse wrote:
> > Many a time I would be goofing off only to turn around to see the 
> > conference room at the back of the NOC filled with 20 business men with 
> > their faces pressed to the glass watching us. Doh!
>
> Last time I worked in the fishbowl, I waited until the Senior Manager
> was showing us off to the VIPs, and then I brought up all the day's
> critical error messages in the IT/O (some of you know it as Opcenter)
> history at once, so it looked like a screen full of red Criticals popped
> up all at once.
>
> Then I looked at the screen, shrugged my shoulders, and walked off out
> of sight.  He thought I was leaving the room; I was actually standing off
> where they couldn't see me, but I could still see the screen in case
> real errors popped up.  :-)
>
> After that, he started calling us and warning us before the curtain would
> be opened.



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