In this week's column of 'Who, Me?', a reader named Connor recounts a comical yet alarming incident from his early career. Working a job that required him to frequently run up six flights of stairs, he often generated static electricity. One day, after forgetting to cycle backup tapes, he inadvertently caused a major outage when his static charge affected the switches in the server room. His humorous tale unfolds as he navigates the immediate panic from his boss and the eventual resolution when he reactivated the backup power supply, bringing systems back online.
"If I touched metal railings or people it was sometimes quite funny," he told Who, Me?
"I think I went pale at the time and my heart may have stopped," he told Who, Me?
"It was my boss asking what I had done, as the helpdesk phones were hopping and every single user in the office had lost connectivity to everything."
"I have never sweated so much in a room that cold," he told Who, Me?
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