Cease and insist.

So my lifelong friend we will call..."Todd" told me that I should elaborate more on yesterday's festivities. I take Todd's advice because he has always been my moral compass. Unfortunately, I usually steered us in the opposite direction but he has always been there for me...all except the one time he tried to take a corkscrew turn by the mall at 70mph. I think I cried a little that time and I had to question what the hell we were doing as the rear end of the car skipped three times, tires barking with each hop. That time and the time we decided to break into a satanic church but that's it.

Come to think of it, Todd is not a very good moral compass.

Anyway, back to the aftermath of yesterday's fiasco..
We were told to "wait here" while the situation was evaluated.

So we waited...FOUR FRIGGIN HOURS.

Then we had a meeting that reminded me of every concession speech I have ever seen. Based upon the body language of my supervisor, the speech should have went: "We tried our damnedest to make you stay here bored with no power nor internet for four more hours, but its becoming obvious to even our staunchest supporters that this is simply an admission that "we don't trust our employees." So we were allowed to go "work from home" until the power and internet were restored, which was going to take approximately 6 to 8 hours. Seeing that I was off work at 3pm and it was 10:20am, if you count lunch, I was golden for the day.

Yeah you would think.

At 1:20pm I received a call from the other guy in my dept. He said "The boss wanted me to tell you that he INSISTS that you return to work because the internet and power have been restored.

~Silence~

I reply "Does he realize that I am 40 mins out and I will have a grand total of ONE HOUR to work?" and the dude replies "Yes. ( it was a stupid question on my part, the man has no soul.. of course he knows.)

"OK I will be there, see you in 40 mins. I arrive on the scene livid yet on the surface I am calm and collected. I sort my e-mails and read what a fragile state the jury-rigged internet access is in right now so be careful and close any unneeded programs and open nothing extraneous.

Well isn't that interesting....

I review to an e-mail where it was determined that an unnamed piece of company software was spiking our bandwidth and out of fairness to everyone, we should only use it sparingly and before 8am whenever possible to preserve precious bandwidth.

Isn't that more interesting....

This is a pretty simple math problem about what happens next.

Fast forward to 2:59 and 3 opened pieces of software...

I actually watched the titanic sink in real time; it was a sight to behold, as the first picture shows. Oh its, ......3PM!

LOOK AT THE TIME!

I WOULD LIKE TO HELP BUT GOTTA GO.