Joel’s email notification chime sounded. He clicked on his email and opened the latest message. It was from Mr. Summerson, who made comments about his report. He read it through and at the bottom found what he expected. It read, “I like the redundancy ideas and especially the hot standby strategy. Make this happen.”

Joel sighed as he realized his plans for getting to know some of his coworkers were going to have to wait. He had a lot of work to do.