I accused coworkers of trying to kill me this way a few years back. They needed a workstation re-imaged. I do the imaging one night and shut it off. Next day I flip it on and there's nothing, then a minor explosion and flames out the rear of the PSU. I'm fairly confident it was a capacitor, but I sent company mail to the department about their failed assassination attempt. The only part about the entire mini-rant that I caught grief over was reminding them that new computer hardware had to come out of their department budget, as IT does not reward failure.
I can't even imagine the horror if it were machines with the big-bucks rendering cards in them, there would be actual blood over some of those. These smaller-scale devs with smaller budgets for their hardware must bs feeling absolutely awful any time something like this happens. The comments I have seen from a few really drive home just how many of them are truly just artists, who know very little about computers in general, as the usual claim is "I have to buy a new machine!"
We should get them real tech support so they can salvage as much as possible and save money.
So maybe it was Rachel who was killed and thrown behind a dumpster?
