Yellow, blue, gray? Forget it
- TAGS:hospital, network cable, nurse
- IT TOPICS:Management, Networking
This pilot fish works on the help desk of a local hospital that offers network connections so patients and their families can connect to the Internet.
A nurse calls the help desk to report that she needs an Internet cable for a patient.
Fish grabs a handful of network cables of different sizes and heads up to the nurses' station.
But when the nurse looks at the collection of cables, her face falls.
"Oh -- I have several cables like that already," she tells fish. "But I thought only the purple ones worked, so I wanted you to bring some purple cables."
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