Today I arranged that I would go to my company to set up some software in the evening. We have got a server there that we used to run some test vm’s on. On this server there was a paper taped to it stating that nobady should shutdown or disconnect the server. I’ve been gone for only 2 weeks on a mission now only to find out that the server had been replaced. Okay I was already pissed about that because I explicitly asked not to turn of the machine. They moved it after a power outage but not only did they move it to a location where there is no working network available. They even managed to connect the useless networking cable to the wrong interface.
You can say well is that so bad? Well yes actually this proves that they just were lazy and moved it alltogether plugged in some wires and pressed the powerbutton hoping that everything would be okay. It’s my opnion that when you want to do something that has been explicitly prohibited you could at least ask the person who knows about these things before doing something stupid.
Even if they succeeded in plugging the network cable in the correct interface the machine still was useless because it needs to have certain things restarted for it to have any use.

Anyways I really was disappointed in the lack respect for other people’s work, you just don’t do something like that.