getting stuck with no way out.
I used to work the early shift for a Stockbrokers based in Perth WA, and we worked East Coast hours, so during summer we needed to be in the office 3 hours before normal people, i.e. the market opened at 10am AEDST so we needed to be in the office before 7am WA time. I would usually get there about 5am, have a shower and catch the elevator to our floor before 5.30 to answer calls from the Eastern States offices if there were any issues.
One morning, the lift broke down between floors. Fortunately the security staff were on call, and answered the telephone quickly but could not get anyone from the lift company until 8 am so I was stuck in the lift for a few hours. That was ok, I laid down and tried to get some sleep which would have been fine except security kept checking every 15 minutes that I was still ok :( After the first couple of times I told them that I was going nowhere, so they could just call me when the lift maintenance people got there.
As with any IT person, getting on with building security and maintenance is essential to ensuring that things go well, so we had a running joke about shutting down lifts so that we could have a catnap during the day.