An intern named Wayne at a web hosting firm was instructed to perform a hard shutdown on a server named 'Orion'. Thinking it was a routine task, he completed the shutdown, only to return to find chaos as the company's primary nameserver was down, affecting tenants' websites. He rushed back to restore power, experiencing intense panic over the situation. Despite the chaos, no one changed the server's label, which remained a point of tension for Wayne during his internship, and he felt relieved that it did not lead to a job offer.
"I was considered an intern but as in many jobs since, wore many hats," he told Who, Me?
"The pretty one with raised floor, that weird fire suppression stuff that won't ruin servers but might ruin human life, and biometric doors (that could be bypassed with a regular key)."
"I was told that despite being an intern, I should have known that the server named 'Orion' had the label 'NS1'," Wayne told Who, Me?
"It was all good," he told Who, Me? "But for a while there I thought I would have a dual heart attack/aneurysm from the sheer panic I caused."
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