Comment on: Stupidest Mistake you've made lately? Here's mine.. Just locked myself out of a new server.

Get out.

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0 06 Feb 2019 02:44 u/Angryelectrician in v/programming
Comment on: Stupidest Mistake you've made lately? Here's mine.. Just locked myself out of a new server.

My company rented one of those single man bucket lifts, the ones you can tow behind a truck with a ball hitch. Pretty pricey for what we were doing. My job was to go up ~ 25 feet in the air in high winds and change the heads out on light poles in a parking lot. Well I don't know if you know, but when you get up to those things they are a lot fucking bigger than they look. Especially when you are 25 feet in the air and the bucket sways every time you fart.

I get to the second to last head with the first ten or so being a success. There are two wires to hook up ,a hot and a neutral. Well my dumb ass is staring right at the wires and for God knows what reason I tied them together BACKWARDS. I have no idea how I did it. Never done it before, so I suppose I decided to try it while we were paying out the nose for the equipment. We turn the circuit on and BOOM, head blows up. $650 down the drain plus we had to bring the equipment out another day to fix one head. Felt about three inches tall.

1 06 Feb 2019 02:41 u/Angryelectrician in v/programming