Nice story. I feel, there are times for taking initiative, being a go-getter. Then there are times when work is work, and if anything l, you train your fine motor skills and be content with that.
I've got muscle-memory for DB9 and DB25, I can twist pairs for RJ45 in my dawn hours, I have scars with many more tales behind them, but I'm so happy to have put it all behind me now ... ;)
(Now I'm the grumpy guy who doesn't wanna change web frameworks every gronk season..)
If you were doing this during the Ethernet transition (to thinnet) you probably remember the AUIs also had DE connectors though I don't remember how many pins -- perhaps a dozen.
Yeah, I totally grok the fastidious corrective path upon which you sit, its just .. as a person .. I know absolutely nobody who used the proper terminology for these things, we'd also often just call them a "9'er" (DE9) or a "chunky" (DB25), which could be a cunt or a fuck, depending on sex.
Especially, rather late at night, deeply embedded in the A/C ducts and 'services tunnels' of the various hospitals, skyscrapers and other locations of this particular company, for whom I rashed my knuckles, bent my noggin', thrashed the chiclets and hacked mad code for long enough to know, that as long as someone else knows what you mean, it doesn't matter what word you use... as long as they fucking don't drop the thing into the abyss before you can embed burn tracks in your flesh and get it secured in place, to be left for the next damn junior fool who dons the overalls and climbs into the hell of it all, to upgrade things.
