I once accidently unplugged an entire office - server & about 10 pcs were all on the same extension lead.

I created a switching loop in a cabinet, didnt realise I had done it either and left it like that for a couple of hours, eventually another campus that were connected to rang up and said there was 10,000 packets a second of traffic coming across the fibre, that meant the whole network ground to a halt, this was working for a college, I brought down two campuses completely.

I was sh*tting myself the next day waiting for the boss to bollock me, but he ended up saying "everyone gets one chance, next time youre dead"

Schoolboy error #2 today. Hoovering around the servers and caught the power switch to our 8 way adaptors.

The room went pretty quiet as all the servers instantly lost power.

Not had the best two weeks really.

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UPS anyone?

that reminds me of one, Flipped the power off because we where doing some testing for someone.  The idea being that only _real_ way to test a UPS is to actually see if it switches.  Now i advised the 16 year old lad helping us out to do it, but never specified a time.  Cue 9:30am ish test of the UPS, and us discovering that the UPS didnt switch like they should.  THat resulted in a mild rant on the part oft he customer.  

lol Ive had situations like that... Best one I remember wasnt me but a work mate, he formatted one of the senior managers computer but was a f**king idiot and never looked for work in a non-standard place and ended up deleting about 11 years worth of work and e-mails. Ok it was the managers fault in a way for placing files in odd locations and/or not backing up but to late for that and so when we all think the sh*ts going to hit the fan he goes and talks to him, ends up convincing the manager that these things happen and now the manager has nothing but praise for the techy... now that blagging skills!