11/11 11:00 at work

[natefz6]

So today at work I was doing other things in the morning, I came back to my desk to find a massive dip in traffic. These kind of dips are normally a massive oh fu$k moment and we have customers hammering the support desk. The odd thing was there was no massive influx of support tickets.

I went looking for the reason.... then it clicked.

https://www.coolioso.org/junk/111114.PNG

Apparently lots of people did the 2 mins silence this year and didn't make phone calls.
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[The Artist]

We all got sent an email to remind us to remember. My boss didn't see it and was having a full on loud conversation on the phone with some Italian person with the rest of the 30-40 people just staring at him.

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[Rogerborg]

We got our reminder at 11:05. Did not rememberest.
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[MC]

My boss was having a go at me at 11...
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Forgot.
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[Pete.]

I stopped my whole crew at 10.45 and told them to have a break until 11.15. Then myself and my brother-in-law went and stood next to the Battle Of Britain Memorial on Victoria Embankment to pay our respect during the silence.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Nexus Icon]

I noticed the time and stopped work to pause for thought today, which is quite unusual for me. I took the opportunity to send silent thanks to the fallen, specifically my grandad for spunking up my grandma before fucking off to Burma in 1944 and not coming back.
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[Clutchy]

We always give people the option to adhere to the silence, and there's not that many sights in life where you go from mega noise of a track to 70+ drivers in silence with their engines off, then to resume testing/practice.


But there's always one twat who has to rev his engine throughout the whole 2 minutes
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[Tungtvann]

https://www.swindonlink.com/uploads/Image/Bath-war-memorial.jpg

Was stood by this today, one of the guys did a reading about Harry Patch who was the last living person to have fought in the trenches and then a wreath was laid.

Then we went and played some mini golf in the rain.

[JonB]

Was busy trying to meet a deadline. Was silent, but when I finished at 11:13, I looked at the clock and thought feck. Just took 2 minutes afterwards to collect my thoughts.
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[Tungtvann]

You're correct. Nice place, Bath.

[Kamikaze Bob]

When I worked in the call centre years ago we were given permission to switch our phones off just before 11am. Pretty decent considering it was a bank. Some of the customers weren't so pleased, even after being told why.
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[sidewinder]

All our machines and forklifts were shut down at 10:40 and restarted at 11:15. Was good to see the polish lads paying respect to.

[c_dug]

Unusual to hear (or not) a whole museum in silence, we have a plaque in the wall about the museum employees who gave their lives in both wars, a series of speeches were given on the run up to 11.00 by staff members, then a lady played a famous trumpet/bugle piece that I don't remember the name of.

Then as 11.00 rolled around, the museum fell into silence. Not a peep out of anybody.

This year I found out that 15 members of the _dug family gave their lives in WWI so I spared a thought for them.
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[thepuma]

What accounted for the similar dip at 1-2pm then?
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[Omega]

Working in an Alarm Receiving Centre we had the opposite . People like to set off their fire alarms to initiate and end the silence and just assume it wont be treated as genuine.

[Commuter_Tim]

I forgot (work on my feet a lot, not always at the computer)
I suggested it was deathly quiet and someone should smash something...

I still maintain that whilst I should "respect others beliefs" they should in turn respect my belief that it makes about as much sense as Valentines Day.
I know most will disagree with my POV regardless, but I will add that I do have respect for the soldiers, but theyre dead, my belief structure doesnt allow for them being offended from the "afterlife".
Such nonsense does not belong in the workplace.


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[Llama-Farmer]

Not everyone observed it. Some just worked through it like the cunts they are.

https://metro.co.uk/2014/11/13/woman-receives-parking-ticket-for-stopping-during-two-minute-silence-on-armistice-day-4946844/
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