Since… well, marriage… I’ve become someone who wants to be well organized. Not at all times, but certainly most of the time. Especially when things seem to get out of hand.
For example, our server room is often a drop zone for old computers, monitors and random other crap that once could carry an electrical current. All of this stuff has the intent of being reviewed and disposed of properly but we’re all busy and that means that sometimes it piles up. Several months ago I set up a day where we call cleaned through the room, which made a world of difference and has given us an area that we’ve been able to keep clean ever since.
One of the cornerstones of this process was my insistance on labeling things. Just about everything, really. Servers should have something that IDs them (perhaps not the name or IP address – since you might have a security issue with that, even in a locked room). Shelves for common supplies, etc. I even insisted on getting a decent label maker to ensure things looked nice.
Yes, that led to the label maker getting… a label. Hilarious. — But its not as bad as the picture (below) I got from my brother. At his office, they did the same type of thing and someone went to great lengths to label this item:
Well… now we know that cable isn’t connected, don’t we?
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