Work silliness

I just tried to log on to work. I need info for an essay I'm writing.  And I got told:

HTTP Status 503 - There are too many simultaneous logins - please wait and try again.

I'm sorry - WTF?

Someone tell me is it or is it not the New Year holiday weekend?

The incapacity of the work servers are a long running story, but this is ridiculous. I'm guessing that the server is just down at the moment, not that all staff and students are trying to log in at the same time.