Tell them you turned it off and unplugged it when you actually didn’t, just to troll them. Don’t worry, IT guys love that sort of humour. You can tickle them a little bit while they glance over your screen as well.
Thankfully my customers don’t have physical access to the servers. But I have told somebody to pull all the power plugs out of the wall and read me the serial numbers between the prongs once to force them to power off.
Tell them you turned it off and unplugged it when you actually didn’t, just to troll them. Don’t worry, IT guys love that sort of humour. You can tickle them a little bit while they glance over your screen as well.
Thankfully my customers don’t have physical access to the servers. But I have told somebody to pull all the power plugs out of the wall and read me the serial numbers between the prongs once to force them to power off.