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This pilot fish changes jobs, moving from a small software company to a large state college -- and there's a bit of culture shock.
"It was summertime, which means daily thunderstorms in this part of the country," says fish. "Daily thunderstorms mean daily power interruptions. It didn't take long to discover that none of the computers in the IT department had battery backups.
"This surprised me, as the small company I'd come from had been using battery backups since the 1980s."
So fish asks around, finds out it's the hardware manager who's in charge of providing equipment and asks him for a UPS. "Sure," the guy says cheerfully, "it will just take a few days."