Architects.

Huffing their own farts.

GitS style yeah!

“How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?”

Ah sweet summer child…

Seriously. My colleague does the same shit and it made me so mad until I realised he was on his branch. Then I was like, whatever, as long as you do a proper MR.

Because they weren’t already listening in?

I’m curious if you’re from the UK, OP, because I think this colours your perception of the The Office very much. For the record I loathe both, but The Office UK is a typical British comedy of taking the absolute piss of the characters, who are irredeemable fools one and all. You re not supposed to find them funny, or like them. You’re supposed to laugh at them. That’s the usual expectation, with British comedy.

Americans seem to have great difficulty with that concept, and can’t seem to handle a protagonist that is made fun of.

Again, not defending the show itself. Just saying you need to be aware of this approach when you watch British comedy in general. The common language should not make you forget the ocean of cultural differences in between.

Oh no! They are military grade, now!

Hmm, sounds like it’s time for the programming djellabah !

I did not know that. But it reeks so much of corpo team building I would not be surprised in the least. Do they do that out on the street, though? My first thought when I saw this was “oh, that must be the hazing for the new recruits! How amusing!”
It was not. It was a daily thing.

I dunno exactly what they sang, but yeah, they would absolutely sing something at the beginning of the day, lined up on the pavement outside their office, with the manager directing like some sort of corpo choral. I guess it’s one of those team building things…

I don’t know exactly what they sing, but yeah, singing together before a shift starts is fairly common over there. Used to see the delivery men do it before taking off for the day. Same with the local estate agent branch down the street where I lived.

I did have actual stand ups once, after coming back from China and all I could think of was “shit I hope they don’t make us sing the corp’s anthem at the end!” like they do over there…

So that’s Agile AOP then.

And I would be the one biting that bait hard because mojibake are like a pet peeve of mine.

In France it’s more like 200%. minimum. Which is why our salaries are so shit when compared with US ones.

But the new trend is hiring interns which are much cheaper, work twice as hard, and come with tax deductions.

Oh shit, you weren’t sarcastic?

Do NOT google “Google”. I really cannot stress this enough.

“that’s right! The square hole!”