We’ve had a pretty rough week, this, at the office. A number of small issues, several still unexplained, have affected various aspects of our production systems — ultimately affecting our customers.

Another engineer was asked to describe one of the rather long outages for upper management. He sent only this:

“We experienced a stage one resumé-generating event.”

Lots of engineers were indeed busy updating their resumés just in case they would need them a few days from now.