Skip Angel says we should abolish overtime!

I don't know if other Gmail users had anything similar but a couple of days ago I wasn't able to mark messages as spam in Gmail for almost 24 hours. I could happily switch between viewing the Inbox, labels, and I could delete messages. But I couldn't report them as spam. All I saw was this error:

Fast forward to today. I was just unable to log in to Gmail for several hours. Which happened to be a good thing for my productivity, I guess, but nevertheless quite a bit of downtime from one of the world's major email service providers.

I'm not mad at Google or anything. I'm thankful for Google for providing free webmail accounts with a smooth user experience. I'm just wondering what's happening behind the scenes because it seems that these glitches have become more common lately.

I guess this is just a reminder that Gmail is still officially in beta--with god knows how many users worldwide.