I'm 400 miles from the servers and don't know how to fix the problems. All I
know is that a friend here, who's a REAL network engineer, has read all the
emails flying back and forth, and has informed me that we have a Very
Serious Problem with the child, and with the business, if the nonsense
continues for another day or two.

This has happened several times before. The first time, the kid built some
sort of rudimentary software for the high school library. Daddy was so
impressed that he let the child tinker in the office. Brought down the
Lantastic network for 2 days.

I'm beyond brownie points by now. By tomorrow, I'll have fangs. I'm over it.
WAY over it.

"Don White" wrote in message
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This could be a good opportunity to rackup some brownie points.
Fix the problem as fast as possible and don't remind the boss of his son's
blunder...he knows that.
Humbly accept any praise thrown your way and assume 'points' have been
deposited in your account.
Who knows...you may need them someday.

Doug Kanter wrote in message
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I'm just a whole bunch of fun today. Consider yourself lucky. My boss is
ready to have a stroke because of me today. His 25 yr old son decided to
"help" by making some adjustments to our network. Now, the company's
email
is down, as well as a host of other network functions which are crucial
to
the business. I told him I'll continue to refer to his son as "the
child"
until everything works again. I'm having a ball.