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Intern Did Exactly What He Was Told And Turned Off The Wrong Server

The Register, Monday, July 28th, 2025

And was then blamed for not knowing about inaccurate labels

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Wayne," who told us about his time in a summer job at a web hosting firm.

"I was considered an intern but as in many jobs since, wore many hats," he told Who, Me?

One day, Wayne's boss told him to visit the server room and perform a hard shutdown on a server named "Orion" that could be found in a certain cabinet.

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