I work in IT, been at the place for years, this one has gotta be one of the most annoying chew-outs ever.
We need thumb drives on certain servers to store the encryption keys for the drives on the servers. Plugging the USB drive into a different port doesn't affect anything at all. I just gotta take the time to go in and move things around (and do everything in the right order so that the environment remains up/redundant)
The only argument for plugging the drive into the internal USB port would be security. Except that, you cannot park in the parking lot without a badge. You cannot get into the reception lobby without a badge and a pin code. You cannot get past reception without a LITERAL retina scan, you cannot get to our specific area that is walled off without four more badge + pin doors, you cannot get into the cage with the servers without a second completely separate badge, and then the specific server cabinet itself is locked and requires a third badge to get into.
No, we're not DoD, we're just HIPAA.
Sure… the boss asked me to put it into the interior USB slot, but that was two months before the install since we had to wait on cables which were back ordered. Additionally, in between there was another install at a different datacenter of the same setup, where the servers did not come with an interior USB port. I literally completely forgot about the request to place it on the interior.
I'm supposed to be a Sr Sysadmin/DevOps, but the place refuses to hire for things like hands and feet, so I end up going into the DC a lot, plus I'm underpaid for my primary duties.
Fork it, just another reason to get serious in my job hunt. I'm done with petty managers