As a DBA at a company supporting call center operations and finance I get paged out because database replication is down to our west coast datacenter and a bunch of our branches cannot connect to systems.

Get on the phone with the carrier, and the engineer says “oh”, and transfers me. Turns out we didn’t pay our telco bills.

Made sure my paycheck cleared and gtf out. Which turned out to be an overreaction that cost me some $, but I ended up at a better gig.