5 Jun
2010
5 Jun
'10
7:46 a.m.
On 06/04/2010 04:54 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
At a previous employer, we had a "Health and
Safety Officer" who did
this, arranged for additional mains sockets to be added to desks, and
so forth. By default you'd get a 3A fuse fitted to a set of desk
sockets, even if you requested an 8-way socket with a 13A fuse. Plug
in eight set-top-boxes for a network test, hit the ON switch... and
watch as the whole desk loses power. This was his policy, even if the
socket strip was itself rated to 13A.
Order a fuse replacement, and you got another 3A. To get something
more sanely rated, you had to get approval from the Head of
Engineering, your Line Manager, and H&S Officer, and also provide a
side of A4 explaining why *exactly* you needed 13A of power. "Running
networking tests which requires 8 boxes" wasn't good enough -- he
wanted an essay. That was always fun...
Why not come in very early one day, or stay late another day and replace
the 3A fuse with a proper one when no one is looking? You could always
claim ignorance or say "They must have GREEN power supplies" if they ask
"wow how did you get 8 machines to run?"