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In the Latest editon of The Last Mile, you'll find our reader submitted "Top 11 Ways to Shorten a Dull IT Staff Meeting." We couldn't cram them all into the page, so submitted for your approval (or revulsion) are all...
February 24, 2006

Erich Huemoeller
• Setting up alerts in your server monitoring systems to send test
messages to everyone just after the meeting starts.

• Faking a memo from the CEO to your boss offering bonus' for shorter
meetings.
• Taking a call on your cell phone during the meeting and pretending
it's your doctor calling with test results on a contagious disease.
• Eating a large Mexican lunch shortly before meeting. Especially if
the ventilation system isn't up to snuff.

Rudy J Villalona
1) Have a teamate secretly call your cellphone.
2) Pick up and say "another WMF attack?" we are right on it.

Darryl Pang
Set/time your pager to ring/display an urgent network outage msg 10
minutes into a meeting.

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