Welcome back to Tech Service Today's IT Disaster of the Week series where we post the ugliest IT environment our technicians run into each week.

My caption for this week's featured photo is "Clean up at Register 3!" 

TST services a lot of customers in the retail and restaurant industries. It amazes us how some quick serve restaurants diligently mop their floors and scrub their tables and counters several times a day, and yet filthy IT disasters like this can be found beneath those spotless counters.

The same is true for many retail stores, even the high-end stores inside the swankiest shopping malls in America. During the overnight hours, custodial crews buff the floors and meticulously clean every sitting area, fitting room, and space visible to customers. But if you peek under the checkout registers, you often find grungy, disorganized messes like this week’s featured photo.

If you didn’t already know this, here is our technical tip for the week: Dirt, grease, and grime are not good for your IT equipment. For some real-life examples why, refer to our enlightening post called 3 Pain Points Only IT Leaders of Restaurant Chains Understand.

If you have an ugly situation like this in your facility, please don't ask the person cleaning the rest rooms to spray some cleanser on your POS and network equipment. Always rely on a skilled IT technician - like those available through Tech Service Today - to properly clean and organize neglected IT equipment.  

Tech Service Today's Cabling Cleanup Services can restore order to even the ugliest cabling chaos plaguing your network environment. So be sure to call TST before your network gets so out of control that it fails...or it appears in a future edition of our IT Disaster Of The Week series. 

Check back every Friday for TST's latest IT Disaster of the Week photo  

which represent one of the thousands of customer sites our technicians visit every year as they install and service IT, networking, and telecom equipment & cabling for our clients.

Click here to see last week's IT Disaster photo.

Do you already have an IT disaster that needs to be cleaned up?

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to install a network. But to ensure that your equipment, racks and cabling are installed properly in an organized, efficient fashion, it does require the talents of a skilled IT technician. If you need help installing or cleaning up your network, contact Tech Service Today to have a skilled, seasoned Technician dispatched to your site.

Need help installing, troubleshooting, testing, documenting, or replacing your network cabling?  Call Tech Service Today for on-site technical services anywhere in North America - often in 4-hours or less.

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