Very, Very Bad Day @ Work

I guess I never knew what the worst case scenario was for a day at my office. Well, since my boss quit and another co-worker is retiring, and the work just keeps getting dumped on me, I found out today!

I'm working on tight deadlines to schedule meetings with legal council, meet with the feds, and prepare a report for a huge state organization. My freaking e-mail would NOT work. This was slowing me down, and was super annoying.

It easily gets worse.

I got a new message and tried to open it. My e-mail did something it had never done before, it told me there was a problem and I needed to log out and log back in. Right? Wrong. I logged out and it wouldn't accept my password to get back in.

I can't even place phone calls to people without my e-mail up (as that's where all the numbers are stored) so I have to keep asking a friend (who has her own work to do) to give me numbers.

After about 2 hours with NO access to e-mail, another turn for the worse. A tech guy gets my e-mail open, and it is WIPED. As clean as the day I started over four years ago. There is nary a message in my inbox, or my sent files. ALL THE FILES my boss gave me (via e-mail of course) before he left are gone, my calendar and address book also blank.

HOLY SHIT! I am crippled without all that information.

I reported the problem (obviously) and this woman at the help desk asks me, "How soon do you need this information?" and my response is, "Immediately! I'm willing to wait as long as it takes to recover ALL of it though." The hell????

Maybe everything will be fine when I get back tomorrow. Or maybe I need a vacation for the rest of the week...