Working on electronics equipment

I was working in a large room with racks of electronic equipment.  It was older equipment that had lots of backplane pins sticking out.  We were trying to figure out what the problem was.  I was working with two other guys and I was the new guy.  They did not respect my opinion very much.  We walked down some stairs to find one of the racks was not seated very well.  It had a connector with pins and needed to be reseated and then screwed in.  I remember we commented that is the connector had a ridge around it it would not come loose so often.  I was given the job of putting the rack back in place and tightening the screws while the two other guys went up the stairs.