IT nightmares

These are things I have experienced that make me shake my head in disbelief.

• Why did the power go out in the server room?
• Because someone plugged a fan in.
• I can't ssh to my current production server, what is going on?
• Uh, It was accidentally decommissioned
• Is this decommission ticket correct?
• Ah yes, I put it in 8 months ago and it indicates it was handled and closed
•  What happened - why did the network act up?
• Ah, a network cable came unplugged.
• What do you mean the manager is having a large scale demo today?  The application hasn't been tested with more than two users.
• He wants the change in production without being tested? 
• Why can't I ssh to the server?
• A duplicate IP problem
• Why do we have to shut all the servers down for?
• The AC unit is leaking water all over the floor.
• Why do we have to shut all the servers down again for?
• need to redo the electrical wiring
• Why did problem <X> occur?
• anomaly 
• don't know
• etc
• What happened to the WAN?
• Big telco (named <X> having lots of wireless coverage) keeps hosing up their routers or has reoccurring hardware issues
• What happened to the DB?
• It was shutdown by mistake.
• What happened to my test last night?
• Without warning, desktop group had forced changes and rebooted systems overnight.
• What happened to my 3 hours of work I forgot to save at 2am when I finally left?
• Without warning, desktop group had forced changes and rebooted desktop
• After sending a highly concerned email one Sunday to management and the security team upon recognizing that data within the 3500 emails I received Saturday contained information indicating someone was actively trying to hack one of our systems.. the response was...
• Security manager: Oh, we were having a company perform a security penetration test.  The enterprise systems manager indicated he didn't think anyone was monitoring.
• Has anyone made changes to anything (sent to server, network and DB teams)?  The application stopped talking to the DB.  I can access the DB from other applications though.
• "Nope, no changes here".. 45 minutes later.. "Try it now".  Hm, works fine now so what was wrong.  "Oh, a static route was created that broke things and the person responsible was off today so we didn't know."

to be continued (unfortunately)