That question reminds me of the time I went to go get the car so we could start load-out and discovered the Russians had had a coup and the Kremlin was under siege. BKa-Boom! The Real World Strikes!!!!
And there was the first gulf war, with MPs showing up to collect people who'd been called up (but weren't home to receive the message).
While not as newsworthy to most people, there was also the year my company was bought by IBM while I was at Pennsic. I heard while there from people who'd arrived later and read newspapers (thought my leg was being pulled at first), but my manager couldn't have known that when she left a rather frantic message on my answering machine asking me to please call before coming back to the office. :-)
Lord, yes, the first Sand War -- remember that my newly appointed sucessor as Corp. Chronicler was one of the folks who got picked up with a black helicopter? Poor Mariah had no notice that she was going to take over at all!
Heh. Reminds me of the year that goldsquare and I got back from Pennsic to discover that our much-despised boss had been revealed as a plagiarist who had started out our fairly miserable codebase with stolen code -- he had been fired and we had started a crash project to replace the entire system quickly, to avoid being sued. A true "WTF?" moment...
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What did you miss?
Date: 2006-08-19 08:46 am (UTC)Re: What did you miss?
Date: 2006-08-20 03:44 am (UTC)While not as newsworthy to most people, there was also the year my company was bought by IBM while I was at Pennsic. I heard while there from people who'd arrived later and read newspapers (thought my leg was being pulled at first), but my manager couldn't have known that when she left a rather frantic message on my answering machine asking me to please call before coming back to the office. :-)
Re: What did you miss?
Date: 2006-08-20 05:36 am (UTC)Re: What did you miss?
Date: 2006-08-20 09:59 pm (UTC)