IT rant of the week

I've not done one of these in a while so here we go. We've had a catastrophic e-mail failure here in the IA. Well we had our service return within twenty four hours however we are waiting for our old e-mail to be recovered via our backups. It does not help the situation when every time you see me to say "I checked my e-mail and is our old e-mail back yet"; my reply is "did you see it"? Their answer is no, well then it is not back yet. If you didn't see it chances are I haven't either.