With a squawk of panic he leaps up, scattering his stale donuts everywhere and proceeds to run around in circles and scream. Five minutes later he calms down to only a blithering mess and stares at the console, wondering what to do. With a meaty paw over his eyes he blindly reaches out and jabs a button at random. The flashing lights go out. Padlocks snap open and chains rattle free from the iron shackles of the IBM marketing division.
Monitors glow again, lights shine, phones warm up and the money chugs in like an express train.
Shutters and garage doors go flying up at the warehouses while the truck engines purr to life and the drivers study the maps of the old trade and distribution routes again. Palette upon palette upon palette of shiny shrink-wrapped boxes get loaded onto the trucks as they ready to pull out. A resulting electrical short wipes out all communications at Redmond Campus Building A for six hours. Communications in Redmond Campus Building A come back online. MSN promptly enters an eight-hour email outage.