When you're in a office building and a sewage pipe bursts and the traders on floor 1 yell first, engineering starts there and floors 2-3.
Turns out it was on floor 16, but floors 10-15 were on a corporate retreat in Bermuda and floors 4-10 left when the announcement was made about a sewage pipe burst and thought engineering already knew.
"When real life lends itself to the best software analogies, it's a marvelous thing."