The office hummed with the usual low thrum of computers, but today, something felt off. Sarah, hunched over her multiple monitors, noticed the first flicker – a brief stutter in the company’s main server. She checked the logs, her brow furrowing. Nothing immediately obvious. Then another server sputtered, followed by a third. Panic, a cold tendril, began to snake its way around her anxiety. She quickly messaged Mark, who was already dealing with a coffee-induced headache. "Servers glitching, Mark! Multiple systems down!" His reply was terse: "Check the power, Sarah. Then call maintenance." She followed his instructions, but everything checked out. The glitches continued, seemingly random, yet undeniably widespread. Sarah, increasingly concerned, escalated the problem to Mark again. This time, he abandoned his coffee break and joined her in the server room. They ran diagnostics, checked power supplies, and reviewed logs in detail, a grim-faced duo exchanging strained words. The more they investigated, the more baffling the problem became. There was no obvious cause for the erratic behavior of the servers. They suspected a virus or malware, but scans came back clean. The glitches were intermittent, unpredictable, sometimes affecting a single server, sometimes several simultaneously. Frustration mounted, tinged with a growing unease that this was more than a simple technical issue. They needed an expert to pinpoint and resolve the cause. Finally, after hours of troubleshooting, they contacted a specialist network technician. Within an hour, the technician was remotely accessing the systems, and the culprit was discovered – a poorly configured network switch that was intermittently overloading under the pressure of recent system upgrades. A simple reconfiguration resolved the problem. The servers resumed normal operation, the quiet hum returning to the office. Exhausted but relieved, Sarah and Mark exchanged a weary glance. The crisis was over, though the lingering caffeine headache would likely remain for Mark for a while longer. file #1678