Cascade

In an IT industry, sometimes this rare phenomena hits you called as an "Outage" . It means that all your servers are down ( in case you are as ignorant as i was 5 yrs ago, a server is a big big box having loads of memory, which actually allows you to do all the tinkering you can do in your local system) and while they all are down production ( yess, we do produce something, surprisingly) comes to a standstill.
Whenever such a thing happens, the first thing to be done is to raise a "ticket" ( a call for help for those guys who run the server, saying, Dude, you system is konked out , I cant proceed further)
After you raise the ticket you "relax" . No no , this not some special IT jargon - I just put it in inverted commas as for us developers this word is really special. If we can relax the next word which comes to our mind is "pantry". This is a place where you get tea, coffee, horlicks, tomato soup for free, a cup of Cup Noodles for Rs.10, Packets of chips for Rs.5 ( the rest i do not have ) .
After satisfying your stomach you generally move over to the Carrom or TT table and try to prove there that once you were a really good sportsman, but IT industry ruined you. Had it been your college you would have defeated the balding bum on the other side 21- 0. But since you lost 15-21 you have to relinquish your bat to another guy jobless due to the outage. You go and sit in front of the TV , which has been muted to facilitate the plethora of conversations going around and find two teams one wearing a glaring yellow uniform, another an equally demure green one fighting it out on the cricket field. You look at the scorecard and you bet on your life that you havent heard of these teams before. "Crap" you mutter... and get up and come back to your seat. You tinker around the internet for somemore time, trying to convince yourself that you are doing some constructive reading. Mostly though you skim through profiles in Orkut. Finally you get tired and plead to whoever it is to please let the servers be up and let you do some work.... This boredom is killing you.
Then a mail comes " Servers are up...sorry for the inconvinience" .
You mutter " thank god" .

Then you face the cascade of things runnin behind schedule, one piling over the other , as you realize you have a long night ahead, and will not reach home on time. As you do one thing, another task rears its ugly head, and this cycle seems never ending.

When you actually plead " Please give me a break !!!! "