Crime Scene: Server Room

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Crime Scene: Server Room

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Nothing says "happy Monday" like crime scene tape in the server room. That yellow caution tape is the universal symbol for "some poor sysadmin's weekend was utterly destroyed." Whoever put that there is either preventing others from witnessing the horror of a catastrophic failure or preserving evidence for the inevitable postmortem meeting where someone will have to explain why production went down. The best part? Everyone walking by knows exactly what happened without needing a single word of explanation. Server room + caution tape + Monday morning = someone's about to update their resume.

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