Reminds me of a stupid story.

President of the last company I worked at suddenly had a splendid idea to turn our original (small) datacenter into an unmanned office. But, due to regulations we still needed feet on the ground there so he hired a security company to basically sit in the NOC all night and let the occasional co-lo client in and doze and shit. I put together about 12 access badges together for the guards who would need them, and got some paperwork together for them to sign, etc.

Owner of the security company was to come by. I found out at the last minute that he brought all of his people with him as well (ostensibly to get their access badges, do a quick walkthrough, etc). Just so happens, all 12 or so security people climbed into the elevator up to the 10th floor where the datacenter was located. About the 5th floor, the elevator suddenly realized that it was 200% overloaded and hung the fuck up between floors.

So, you got 12 people, all crammed into an elevator, the president of the guard company suddenly flips the fuck out (come to find out, he's extremely claustrophobic). He calls his wife, who kindly sings to him over the phone to calm him down. Buddy I work with got the doors cracked and talked with them. Called the maintenance company to unfuck the security company stuck in our elevator shaft, and at 5pm I took the stairs down to my car.

Oh, and I emailed the president recommending against going with any security company who can't even get up an elevator without fucking it up. While he strongly agreed, contracts were signed, so we were stuck with them for a year.

I have nothing to contribute to this. Sorry.

Tragic stuff. Usually when you read this kind of stuff you don't think it would be in the USA with all the building regulations.