I have burn scars. Lots of them. No knife scars thankfully.
Working in IT is a surprisingly hazzardous profession.
You to boss: Can I take the network down to remove the old cables from the (server) cabinet so I can get the new server in?
boss: <silence>
You: Ok... I get to do it the hard way. Will you watch please? I want a sets of eyes to ensure I'm safe cutting the old cables out of the live server rack.
(The hard way is trying to extract old defunct cables from the server rack (just think of films with lots & lots of flashing lights in a server room)...
whilst trying to ensure that the entire network remains operational. We only had 25 servers at my last place, so just 2 racks but space was at a premium because every server has to be on a backup battery for the very regular power outages.. All the cables into the back of a server have to be fed through an arm, so that you can pull the server all the way forward without having to remove every single cable into back of it (2x power, 2 x network minimum, 1 x screen + special cable for remote BlOS screen control at start up).
So cable in question has to come out. It's a very old VGA cable that no-one has been able to remove. It is simply no longer possible for this big old chunky grappling hook to be left in place. No amount of tactful persuasion was working and you're against the clock as it is...
So out come the scissors, It was all I could lay my hands on in a school... and hindsight says it was probably for the best...)
I'm working on a very
live network not impressed with things muttering under my breath... Big loop of cable holding it a very long way away from the server rack,
both my boss and the headmaster watching... I've checked that everyone is happy I'm not anywhere hear anything I can cut except for the cable I want to cut... so it's a good 50cm away from the rack (It was a 10m cable) and snip....
...No-one myself included has spotted that my bent index finger was in the path of the scissors. I cut quite a bit of skin off it...
Hubby gets the usual phone call... can you collect her from A&E in ...