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Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess
Hank, a sysadmin, accidentally dropped an expensive 750MB SCSI drive, lied to his boss about it malfunctioning, and successfully replaced it with a new drive. The incident led to him learning to handle hardware carefully.
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