The Power Supply Who Cried Wolf

[cmdr_zoom]

[Shad] ... Note to self. Tell the hardware techs that if they don't fix the UPS monitor so that it stops sending six alerts every time there's even a minor power flutter, one day when there's an actual critical failure we won't find out because everyone reflexively deleted the alert message and went back to sleep.
[Shad] Simply put, when the rate of false positives is thirty times that of the rate of actual incidents, people *stop trusting the alarm system*.
[me] yup.
[me] Useful to shadowrunners, not so much to the actual IT people.
[Pyro] Yeeaap.
[Pyro] On which note, check your server room for suspicious guys in boiler suits with non-specific "Maintenance" on the back.
[me] "Yeah, we're here to fix the... things."
[seebs] You did need... things... fixed, right?
[me] "You must have, or you wouldn't have called us." "We didn't call you." "Right. Uh. The head office sent us out." "This is the head office."
[me] "..." "..." *automatic weapons fire*

Comments

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

On a point of order: You have omitted the federally-mandated "boring conversation anyway" cite that must precede the gunfire.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

In my experience, that tends to come later, along with the rhetorical "Why do all of our runs turn out this way?"