[32686] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Operations: where are you going to sit?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woodfield)
Wed Dec 6 17:54:03 2000
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:48:07 -0500
From: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
To: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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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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