“What do you mean, ‘The servers are all down’? Don’t we have redundancy or something, in case one of them fails?”
“Yes, but Ebron knocked all of the servers offline at the same time. They are redundantly down now.”
“How did he get in? I thought we temporarily turned off permissions for anyone being let go, just in case they tried something like this?”
“We did turn off Ebron’s network access. He, um, accessed the servers physically, using his admin key to the server room.”
“What? Why didn’t you take that away?”
“We tried, but there was no denying the big, pushy pachyderm in the room. He almost flattened his supervisor breaking in.”
“Crap, this is a mess. Do we have backup? He didn’t erase things did he?”
“He reformatted all of the server drives. We’re backed up through the cloud and our offshore assets, but we have lost six hours and 12 minutes of work from this office.”
“No, no, no, I am not hearing this! Do you know how much client work we do in six-and-a-half hours? Heads are gonna roll! How’d we whiff so bad on this guy?”
“Well, Ebron’s a big, slow herbivore. But he tends to trumpet loudly and stomp on things when he gets mad. We prepped his handler and security to be on the lookout for him to lash out at his department.”
“Yeah, but he’s taken down the whole office, even folks he never worked with!”
“In retrospect, it makes a kind of sense that he’d be indiscriminate. My mama always said elephants never target.”