It's 4 o'clock on a Tuesday, the working man's least favorite day of the week- too far from Friday to dream of the weekend, close enough to last Sunday to still remember the joys of a time already passed. And just when you thought your life couldn't get any worse, after your boss emails you a new assignment, what happens? Gmail goes down for the count.10 - 9 - 8...
This has happened before. Your main portal into the social pipeline of people you once spent time with daily, now only engage in digital friendship, suffered some kind of severe blow. But you, being the businessman that you are, rest assured in the power of technology and tell yourself Gmail will be back in no less than 5 minutes. You rely on getting a head start on that new assignment to pass some time....
7 - 6 - 5...
Ten minutes have now passed and panic is starting to set in. What is going on??? Is it possible Google, the Internet giant, is really having this many problems? You rationalize, maybe someone over there is also having a bad Tuesday. You say sorry to that techie out there in cyberspace and you patiently get back to work.
4 - 3 - 2...
OK, enough is enough! It's now 4:50 and this has to be a dream. No way in hell can you possibly do "real" work anymore. "What is going on with my friends?" "Who's going where for happy hour?" "Have ANY of the jobs I spent most of last week applying for responded with a promising interview?" The power of the Internet is now punching you in the face. Because what can you do without it? Simple social networking tools are all you have left of humanity! Take them away and you whither and squirm like an ant under the magnifying glass! "Please, make it stop! Connect me with those friends I so desperately cling to for reassurance that this won't be my last job and everything will be OK once we get to the bar! Google, what have you done to my life?!"
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It is now 5:30. Somebody at Google better be getting fired.
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