Being a Part of the PFM

Pure Friggin’ Magic refers to the mysterious events that resolve a problem, sometimes a huge outage, with no apparent action being taken by anyone. It is as if someone’s fairy godmother came down and sprinkled pixie dust on the network and suddenly it all returned to normal.

 Remember  PFM may indicate that someone secretly repaired an issue that he or she caused to begin with. This is actually more desirable than the other possible cause of PFM — an intermittent issue that will come back again soon. If the problem crops up again, deem it as an intermittent issue and troubleshoot it vigorously.

Tell your boss the following, “I don’t know what happened! Our carrier and our hardware vendor swear they didn’t touch a thing to fix our problem. We seem to have had a case of PFM.”

 Warning!  If you work for a boss or organization that eschews swear words, don’t use this expression.