My wonderful office

So last summer two ballasts (the things in the ceiling that hold lights) blew out in the office, such that only 1 light in each worked. There are a total of 6 ballasts with 3 lights each.

My labmate sent in a work order and months later someone came by and verified that the ballasts were, indeed, broken. (14/18 lights working)

Today I was sitting here and there was this humming sound and then it got darker and smoke started to spew from one of the other ballasts. I phoned maintanance and sat with my laptop in the hallway for an hour. They came by, switched on the lights and verified that some lights didn't work. They helpfully pointed out that the other two ballasts didn't work either and had been tagged.

An electrician came by. I don't know a huge amount about wiring, but I'm not sure the lights should have been flicking on and off in response to him tugging on wires. He said he couldn't fix it in the time he had and couldn't call it in because the server was down. (Lights 10/18)

Several hours later the ballast again starts spewing smoke, so I turn off those lights. (Lights (4/18)

It's getting kinda dim in here.

Did I ever mention I had no windows?