Cabling Survived Dungeons And Fish Factories, Until A Lazy User Took The Network Down
The Register, Friday, November 28th, 2025
A quick squeeze of the crimper saved the day ... and a career
Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of delivering excellent tech support amid your colleagues' ambivalence, anger, and unjust admonitions.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "George" who told us about his first job in IT.
"Fresh out of university, where I studied history, but mostly fiddled around with computers, I enrolled in an IT course as part of a learn/work contract to become an SCO Unix admin."