Well, it's a great timing.

Fail it's because I am new; Succeed then it's my superior capability; plus, the learning rate during crisis is at least 10 times higher than the peaceful time, let alone the nerves and mental fortitude where peaceful time would never train one for.

Maybe he's the guy who posted a couple of days ago about pulling a disk out of a RAID array on his first day in a leadership position...

Hah. Got a link to that?