A friend has one of his jobs with a telecom company. Everything there is political. He bets that the day the outage happened, as many devs as possible would have tried to call in sick as that is what happens at his firm (Telus/Bell).

I would have. I call in sick during prod failures at one of my gov jobs.

In jobs with no real rewards for excellence but decent job security, a crisis is a reason to get out the door.