Manager B of server department asks Employee A for a list of his servers and the applications on them.

Employee A asks Manager A if she could get him the list.

Manager A asks Director A for the list since she remembers giving it to him.

Director A assumes the server people would have this information and asks Manager B for the list to give to his people.

Manager B calls Employee A and asks that he hurries up with the list as there are now Directors asking him for it.

Somewhere, Labrador Retriever C is chasing its tail and thinking we're idiots.