That sinking feeling

Prologue: Humor me, will you? For the sake of averting Google searches, let's say, henceforth, that I work for ReallyBig U, and that my primary responsibility is maintaining a ReallyBig System. Got that straight? Very good.

Can I just say that there's nothing like the sinking feeling of hearing the words, "There've been people looking for you. I think there's something wrong with RB System," when sliding into work at 8:25.

The good news is, it wasn't my fault that the system was broken, not that it helped matters. The bad news is that it wasn't actually my system that was broken, so I couldn't do anything about it. Thank goodness for quick system staff.

The better news is that the system was back up and running smoothly by 8:55 or so, and I got a couple of thankful e-mail responses for my quick work in fixing the system. Err, yeah.