The ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card in the coding world! When GitHub goes down, productivity legally has to stop. It's like when the teacher didn't show up for 15 minutes in college—you're contractually allowed to leave.
Even the most demanding boss has to concede defeat when faced with the digital equivalent of "the dog ate my homework." The beauty is it actually works! No repositories, no commits, no pull requests = mandatory coffee break.
Pro tip: Bookmark GitHub's status page for those moments when you need to prove you're not making it up. Works approximately 0.07% of the time, but worth keeping in your emergency slacking toolkit!