Are office people really that, umm shall we say...slow?

When I got my first real job, being an IT monkey at Saxon Publishers, I didn't know a thing about computer networks. I was expected to learn on the job. One morning, I decided to change my cube's ethernet port from 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps. I located the corresponding cable in The Closet, unplugged it from a 10 Mbps hub, plugged it into a 100 Mbps hub, and left for class. The problem was that I had plugged into port 16, which was shared with the hub's uplink port. The hub dutifully provided service to my computer at port 16 and forgot about the uplink, thus separating itself (and all the Very Important Things connected to it) from the rest of the company network. Business stopped, for 2.5 hours, until I returned gave my frantic co-wokers the clue they needed. I was not fired. -- Jeffrey S. Sharp jss(a)subatomix.com