The Apocalypse September 12, 2004
Posted by Owen in : Work , trackbackAt 2:32 PM last Thursday the Internet dies at work. You could literally hear people hitting the refresh button over and over and their productivity ground to a halt. Personally, everything I do requires the Internet, so I took the opportunity to walk around the building. The normally quiet atmosphere was completely changed as people sat there and talked to each other. It was like being in a completely different place. Some people couldn’t cope and just sat there and stared at their monitors, while other people ran up and down the hallways frantically looking for someone to fix the Internet.
Deadly words like “SBC” and “Verizon” were overheard and I knew all was lost. So I did the next best thing to work–played solitaire. Well I would, except the damn company didn’t install it. I was reduced to talking to my coworkers about our favorite alcoholic beverages. Then the Internet came back (2 hours later) on and it was to the grind (for 20 mins until it went out again… then it was time to give up and go home).
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