Thank you note!!!!!!!!!

Finally...... I just so happened to be online at that time (around 9.30). Suddenly, my boss (frits) from NL, buzzed me through instant messenger asking me about Severity 2 ticket. I really didn't know because:
1. I was not on ROTA for Severity 1 and 2.
2. It was Christmas.

So, he forwarded to me the ticket no for my further investigation. Not much detail been provided. and i talked to richard another person from UK. He gave me an overview what was going on. hmmm.. I looked at it...it was not even my speciality area. I called my team mate whom i believed would be more knowledgeable in that area. No body answered my call (because holiday and almost midnite). Hah! i happened to be at wrong place and wrong time. And nobody from brazil, US and EU can assist. Leave me with Richard. I had no choice except to investigate. at last, i know what was causing the system to be disrupted. and voila!

-----Original Message-----
From: Verbaarschot, Frits FGL SDSI-DFI/163
Sent: 29 December 2008 19:15
To: Klavers, Richard SDSI-DFI/1641; Mout, Robert D SDSI-DFI/156; Zulkifli, Zayed MALAYTR-DFI/1631; Bersuch, Willi SDO-DFI/1643; Van Kessel, Joost J SDSI-DFI/1643; Ratakonda, Prasadarao SHLOFF-IBM; Uthirimani, Stalin SIPC-DFI; A-Kadir, Mohammad-Azam MALAYTR-DFI/163; Gilje, Nils DANSK-DPG/341; Mononen, Tuomas HELSINK-DSE/4651; Rajamanickam, Velu SHLOFF-IBM; Boskamp, Romul PH SDSI-DFI/1633; Paige, Janice P SIPC-DFS/922
Cc: Den Dulk, Willem W SDSI-DFI/1641; Mueller, Beki K SLUBE-DFI/1641; Nadema, Doutie DM SDSI-DFI/164; Preston, Carla H SDIUS-DFI/156; Smith, Mary MJ SDIUS-DFI/163; Abraham, Neuby SHLOFF-IBM; Iyer, Ganesh R SHLOFF-IBM
Subject: THANK YOU for fixing GIM04433945 - XX - No LVP values received

Dear Richard, Zayed, Robert, Romul, Willi, Joost, Prasad, Stalin, Azam, Nils, Tuomas, Velu, Janice and anyone I might have forgotten to mention,

Thank you and my compliments for your dedication and for restoring functionality over the past Christmas days.

A special thank you to Richard and Zayed for coordinating the activities across parties involved. I know you’ve been doing work on this throughout Christmas on social and unsocial hours.

This incident shouldn’t have happened, but on the good side, what you’ve done is a shining example of dedication and teamwork across players in the business and in IT.

Calendars will be verified to prevent similar incidents over the coming festive days.

May I wish you all very joyful days, without incidents, and a Happy New Year,

Frits Verbaarschot

DFI/163

Global DS1 GSAP Delivery Manager

Shell Downstream Services International B.V.

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