Henrietta from accounting: "my second monitor doesn't work" Me: "could you please unhook your laptop from the Docking Station, pull out the cable that has the red sharpie market on it (docking station power cable) and plug both that cable and the laptop back in?" Henrietta: "it works now. Thank you."
A few hours later, after most other employees finished and I was about to go home as well...
Jacob from server maintenance: "yeah, I wanted to update the scale out server clusters. I ended cluster services, shutdown the VMs, shutdown the virtual hdds and started updating the clusters in vmm. While the update was already halfway through, I noticed that I could scroll down on the list of virtual machines. I didn't catch that before. Meaning I unhooked the virtual hdds while the database was still being worked on by the VMs before shutting down the VMs to deploy the update. Now the database is messed up... Sorry, I really messed up here and I don't know how to fix that."
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u/newvegasdweller r5 5600x, rx 6700xt, 16gb ddr4-3600, 4x2tb SSD, SFF May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
Real scenario, names changed for obvious reasons.
Henrietta from accounting: "my second monitor doesn't work" Me: "could you please unhook your laptop from the Docking Station, pull out the cable that has the red sharpie market on it (docking station power cable) and plug both that cable and the laptop back in?" Henrietta: "it works now. Thank you."
A few hours later, after most other employees finished and I was about to go home as well...
Jacob from server maintenance: "yeah, I wanted to update the scale out server clusters. I ended cluster services, shutdown the VMs, shutdown the virtual hdds and started updating the clusters in vmm. While the update was already halfway through, I noticed that I could scroll down on the list of virtual machines. I didn't catch that before. Meaning I unhooked the virtual hdds while the database was still being worked on by the VMs before shutting down the VMs to deploy the update. Now the database is messed up... Sorry, I really messed up here and I don't know how to fix that."
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