2 minutes silence

[Pondlife]

Silence was well planned at my place - they used the fire alarm for marking the 2 minutes.

A couple of people were in the coffee area clattering away.

However, most bizarrely - loads of Indian guys here knew nothing about this, jabbering away on the phone and to each other, looked at everyone else stood still and silent, and carried on with their phone calls!

Surely since they were using the fire alarm to signal the start and end everyone would have had an email explaining that you weren't supposed to dash for the fire exit like a headless chicken.

[Xenophon]

However, most bizarrely - loads of Indian guys here knew nothing about this, jabbering away on the phone and to each other, looked at everyone else stood still and silent, and carried on with their phone calls!

****** foreigners.

[RichardCranium]

However, most bizarrely - loads of Indian guys here knew nothing about this, jabbering away on the phone and to each other, looked at everyone else stood still and silent, and carried on with their phone calls!

That's what happens in an organisation that has a culture of not getting people to work together and communicate.

Presumably you lot missed out on all the Diwali sweets too?

[sasguru]

That's what happens in an organisation that has a culture of not getting people to work together and communicate.

Presumably you lot missed out on all the Diwali sweets too?

lot of "against the spirit of the law" ICT workers.

[Diestl]

Its a load of crap, I dont even know what WWI was about and dont care, its ancient history, get over it.

[cailin maith]

Its a load of crap, I dont even know what WWI was about and dont care, its ancient history, get over it.

I really hope you are kidding

[Moscow Mule]

Its a load of crap, I dont even know what WWI was about and dont care, its ancient history, get over it.

Childish attitude.

It's only from knowing and understanding where we've been than we can hope to better ourselves in the future.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Tossers. It should be a criminal offence to fail to observe it.

Ah. So they didn't die fighting for freedom, then, but for Moose to give orders.

[zeitghost]

She sounds like a clever old lady to me. I bet she got a till with no queue, too.



She may have her reasons for not wanting to oberve the silence:

- "I do my silence thing at the War Memorial on Sunday."
- "I do my silence thing at church in the week when there's nobody about, while I'm doing the flowers."
- "It won't bring my Albert back."
- "I daren't stand still for too long with these hips. I'll freeze up."
- "Must get these Femidom sharpish; there's a punter waiting."

Not to mention that some of these little old ladies did some remarkable things in the last War.

[zeitghost]

I had a fag break during the two minute silence, which seems appropriate as most of the guys waiting to go over the top before battles like the Somme and Ypres would have been puffing away.

edit - I also bought a poppy this year, but had nowhere to stick it into my coat. They really are very badly designed for that.

You should have had a tot of rum too.

That helped a lot apparently.