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John was having an impossible day. The final data center migration did not work. His site was handling the full bank volume on a machine that was partitioned to handle slightly over half the banking volume easily. Adding insult to injury his boss’s boss was calling trying to find out…

Hans strolled into the room they were using as the meeting room and general room for those not stationed here to work from time to time. He was shocked to see the Brit in the room, but not surprised the man in the suit hadn’t made it yet. For a…

Kent actually paled when Margret issued the last statement. Kathryn continued, “I have not gotten a full report from my people. The two I need to speak with are in the room working through this. They were supposed to notify me if there was any problem. I never got a…

“It’s not so bad. We have a system startup problem.” “We have a twenty-four-hour recovery period per the FDIC regulations. After that, we are no longer insured. I’m certainly not going to be in the room when the board of directors gets that little bit of news.” Invoking the board…

Kathryn was sitting in her office fuming. Migration of the final data center had not gone smoothly. They’d had no significant problems migrating the other data centers, but this last one was under the impression they were being expanded, not migrated. As a result, everyone working there refused to assist…

Jeremy had touched down at SETAC about an hour before Stacie’s flight arrived. They had both agreed he should get to the airport first so he could pick up the rental car and be waiting for her at arrivals. The drive to the lodge was only forty-five minutes, but seemed…

Heidi was back at her place for the first time in five days. The second camp was operating beyond its capacity. She had trained six different people how to operate the machine and extract the blood. She had helped interview over one hundred people as team members. Almost all of…