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I know the 2 minute silence was widely observed. Our lot had sent various emails round informing us that they would also be observing it. However, they also managed to bugger it up.

They said that the fire alarm would be used to signal the start and finish of the silence, which would be held at 12.00 noon. Fair enough. At 11.58 an email appeared headed "2 MINUTE SILENCE IN 3 MINUTES TIME - YOU WILL HEAR FIRE ALARM TO ALERT YOU TO THIS SHORTLY". Then the fire alarm went off. Everyone was looking at each other as if to say "Is this the silence? It's too early" and then the place gradually went quiet as they realised it was. We observed a confused 2 minutes silence which finished at noon when everywhere else was starting theirs. Then I heard various people make calls to other offices and I thought "Oh no! They'll be holding the silence at the correct time, don't do that!"

How can a place with clocks on at least every PC etc manage to bugger up the timing so badly? I would have thought it would have been an easy thing for whoever was controlling the fire alarm to check on the TV or radio to get their timing right. It just confused us all.
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