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Ask HN: How to go 'Office Space' on two server blades?

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So, where I work My team has multiple applications that we take care of. Of all the apps, we particularly hated one. We have finally revamped and have moved away from dealing with the old codebase, and at a similar time, our company is decommissioning the server blades the application was running on. We have the two blades that the application was actually running on, and we get to 'go all office space' on it.

(HDD's and other non-volatile memory have already been removed, wiped, and destroyed properly, and what remains will be also trashed properly as well).

We have the normal ideas of throwing the server off our building (4 stories), shooting the servers with rounds of ammo, and we even have the idea of purchasing some Tannerite to make it go boom.

I'm looking for ideas on how to have a fun time destroying it.

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DKnoll
1. Thermite.

2. Use both as sleds.

3. Tie sled from aforementioned suggestion behind a car and see who can hold on the longest.

4. Find some way of combining thermite, sled and car suggestion.

radoslawc
Why not go proper "office space" on it? Take it outside of city, beat it with baseball bat, make some massive heel drops on it? All of this of course to same music, film it and put on yt.
theWold
We have thought about that. We have a sledge hammer and a maul, and it seems to be the most 'tame' idea while also being fun for everyone. Plus we wouldn't need to travel anywhere special. Some of our coworkers would even try to make a small parody of the original Office Space scene.