Who, Me? Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button
- ID
- 24119
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 14 Sep 2026, 2:30 PM
- Fetched
- 14 Sep 2026, 2:54 PM
- Provider
- The Register
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/09/14/who-me-tech-team-stood-and-laughed-at-colleague-who-pressed-the-wrong-off-button/5295749
- Source URL
- https://www.theregister.com/headlines.atom
Summary
- Score
- 1.5
- Created
- 14 Sep 2026, 2:54 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_coders
What happened
The Register's 'Who, Me?' column shares a reader anecdote from early-2000s Glasgow where a technician named 'Vince' accidentally pressed the power button on a storage array instead of the adjacent server it was meant to reboot. Unable to let go without causing an outage, Vince held the button while the entire team came to laugh at him before fabricating an 'urgent maintenance' excuse to take the server down and free his finger.
Why it matters
This is a humor piece with no actionable technical or business takeaway. The only mild lesson is that physically similar-looking adjacent infrastructure components can cause operator error, but this is not novel or worth changing anything over.
Discussion angle
A quick icebreaker or comic-relief moment: share your own 'pressed the wrong button' story, but don't spend more than two minutes on it.