[y7]

You never had one of the pins slightly bending so the connector wouldn't fit anymore and you had to manually try to bend it back?

[rightbyte]

Sure. But if I remember correctly the cable ends are both male, so it was never the device that got bent. In some sense weakness on the right part is a feature.

[arccy]

every meeting room had a long semi-permanent cable wired through the walls / floors. bent pins on those were not fun.

[lostlogin]

Once you’ve been involved in repairing them, you start to insist on the sane approach - cable in the wall, connected to a faceplate which has a plug on the back and a plug on the front. That way any damage can be repaired without re running the cable.