Lights out! Newbie IT manager's dark basement trip

Pass the pliers for the supplier's testicles, we might need them

This Damn War Hello and welcome to a brand-new Register series taken from the front line of high tech and business, encompassing war stories from our readers and writers about clumsy contractors, slippery suppliers, and the machinations of management. It's tales of fail, "I told you so" moments, and of getting away with it."