and things went downhill from there

A big project I've been working on just suffered a major setback due to problems with the quality of the source data.  If I'd been more focused on this project earlier (I've been splitting time between projects) I'd have discovered this issue some time ago.

I offered a suggestion over a year ago that would have fixed this problem, but they set up a work-around for me instead.

The work-around doesn't work.  We thought it was working, but it's not.

At the moment I'm feeling like that wacky Lloyd Bridges character in the movie Airplane: "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."