I shared this most recent story to remind myself of it because this week has been anything but fun troubleshooting. Just slog after slog. I get brought into some issue, and can tell in under an hour it’s not a problem in any of the gear anyone on my team owns or can access. Four hours later, we finally manage to lead the other team to the problem in their environment. One in another section of my company, one in a customer’s environment, and two so far in *vendors’* environments. Why am I the one finding problems in our vendors’ environments?

Then this F5 alarm fire breaks out.