Pilot fish is dispatched to a big, highly automated warehouse to install a new server.

“It was a really cool facility,” fish says. “The computer room had a second-floor glass wall, looking into the warehouse. There were robotic forklifts running on wire guides in the floor. The orders came in, the robots picked and delivered product to the packing area.”

Everything is going fine with the server install when suddenly the lights blink and the UPS takes over.

Fish’s first thought: What did I do?

Nothing, it turns out — a backhoe nearby has just ripped through the main power feed for the warehouse. Once the much relieved fish learns that, he returns to the install and finishes up in well under an hour.

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