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The managers feel shut in and bored, so they've decided to lower morale of the entire team. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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I was expecting an Office Space clip...
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Despite being seriously funny, this is part of a real management training video about meetings. It is really quite good. You can't get better than Cleese to play someone who doesn't understand that they are being an idiot.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Just wait until you work for a global conglomerate that has
developer all-hands meetings,
divisional all-hands meetings,
and
global all-hands meetings.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I do, I have manged not to be at them yet.
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I went to work for a large postal systems related company as a Team Lead/Senior Software Engineer. On day one the manager told me she had put my weekly meetings on my calendar already (to be helpful). When I checked, I found that all the meetings were each 1 hour long, and there were 28 of them (per week). This left me 12 hours a week to get some work done as I was expected to attend all of them! Most people arrived at least five minutes late because they were coming from other meetings - it was a large building with multiple floors.
It turned out that for 21 of them, I was sitting in for her and this had cut her meetings down to only 14 - in other words, until I came along, she had been spending 35 hours a week in meetings. No wonder all projects were behind and had huge timescales!
I only lasted six months before running away to another, lower-paid, job. She was furious as she had added two more meetings to her list in the meantime.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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... The QA guide to writing an AI[^] 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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... there is a big black 22" hole where a monitor used to be, and I'm out of screen real-estate before I've even started!
How the heck did I cope with a single 17" monitor? Or gawd forbid a 15" like I did back in the days?
I wish I could remember, because the replacement won't be here until sometime tomorrow!
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That is nothing. When I was young, we had to walk 3 miles, uphill, in the snow, to get to school. Same thing, coming home.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Only 3 miles? 
We had to walk 30, each way, uphill, in the snow - and that was summertime!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Only 30 miles!?
We had to walk 300...
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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First liar never has a chance.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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The Proclaimers practiced on your school route! 
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Italian guys walking?
No way... 
M.D.V.
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True. I run, instead.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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No scooter? or fiat?
you might be the exception that confirms the rule
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Nelek wrote: or fiat?
That equates to walking most of the times.
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den2k88 wrote:
That equates to walking most of the times.
I think in some places you are even faster walking than sitting in the car.
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Definitely true, here in Rome.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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In some cities here in germany (i.e. Stuttgart) it is true depending on the time of the day, but with bike is true mostly the whole "office" day
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In truth, when I was a kid, we did walk to school when it was snowy - because the school was at the top of a steep hill, and the only access road went down one steep hill then up the school one. The number of cars that could get down one hill but up neither ...
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Me too, except it wasn't up hill. There were no school buses in those days and it was during the war so nobody had gasoline to haul dumb kids around.
But, I was happy.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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You had shoes? !!!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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