Innocent techie jailed for taking hours to fix storage
On Call As Friday rolls around, The Register knows many readers are a little fatigued. Which is why we use this day to bring a fresh instalment of On Call – the weekly reader contributed column we hope amuses you enough to shake off a week of tech support torpor and traipse into the weekend with a smile on your dial.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Julian" who specialized in maintenance of big tape libraries – the sort of thing with fancy robotics to move tapes in and out of multiple drives.
Libraries of this size were so capacious they were usually shared resources, so finding a moment in which all users were happy for downtime was never easy. Julian was therefore often called out for big jobs that involved both maintenance and repairs.
Julian explained that he would return to base to collect more spare parts so he could get to his next job, whenever that might be.
