My little corner of the megacorp's network has been down since yesterday, that is to say about 400 people are without internet. With nothing that can be done on my part (I'm not a networking guy) and nothing more I can do without the network, I took the rest of the day off! Kind of helps make up for the fact that I'll be staying after hours monitoring a new deployment soon. Despite the regularity of such baffling ineptitude, it never ceases to amaze me that a company so big (200,000 people worldwide and counting) can fail at such basic infrastructure and other assorted things.