"The owner was a singularly one-minded man and his word was law, even when his word was dumb. His insistence on 24/7 server operation conflicted with necessary security patches, leaving me to devise a workaround."
"Security was a priority, so the patches could be applied without rebooting the servers. This left me in a bind, as it was clear the two orders couldn't coexist without compromising the system's safety."
"I befriended the head of building services to learn about a fire drill scheduled for the next few weeks. This knowledge allowed me to execute the server maintenance in a way that wouldn't disrupt operations."
"Come the day of the drill, I sent two team members offsite to create plausible deniability. During the fire drill, we managed to patch and reboot the servers successfully without alerting anyone."
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