The Generator's Gone

An amusing story about network management, right out of John Carpenter's 1982 version of The Thing.^*

It appears that there was a small bit of civil unrest, and a client lost connectivity, and they were unable to contact the client for some time.

When they finally managed to get an engineer over to reboot the network, the network was gone...as in GONE...the copper taken by looters, stripped right out of the walls.

The pertinent quote from the movie:

Garry: The generator's gone.
MacReady: Any way we can we fix it?
Garry: It's "gone", MacReady.

Just go read it, it's funny.

^*Except, of course for that whole human replica producing alien thing, of course.