Back to the Stone Age

So our email server at work has been down since Tuesday and everyone is at a lost on how to continue with their daily routine without email. It seems people easily forget how people in the corporate world used to work before the internet was invented.

On Tuesday, everyone decided that since the email server was down, they wouldn’t work. So it was a pretty relaxed day. One that was much needed since everyone was being overworked for about 6 months to get a multi-game out the door.

Well, come Wednesday, everyone was freaking out because everyone realized they couldn't just skip another day of work. We’ll loose money! We’ve already lost a few contracts because of this email disaster. So everyone was trying to figure out what needs to be done by visiting people they usually interact through email. Let me tell you, this was interesting. I went over to the game developers department to look for a couple of people I normally email when a game comes to me. The second I entered a room, a man welcomed me with a warm smile and calls out my name. I pretend I know him by smiling back and asking him how he was doing. Let me tell you, if you really don’t know this person, don’t pretend. This has backfired on me so many times and yet I never learn. Anyways, he asks me what I was doing there and I tell him that I’m delivering an ‘email’ notification that I’ve released their game to the testers since the emails are down and that I’m looking for David. Low and behold, I was talking to David! How embarrassing!

We all had to adjust by using alternatives to keep the business running. Everyone had to learn a game has come in by word of mouth. A game developer came over with a post-it that had all the information I needed to release the game. My other coworker created a document so I can fill out to send to hand deliver to testers in another building once a game is ready to be tested.

Let me just say, I think I lost 5 pounds in the 2 days I’ve been walking around. Today was my rest day from the gym because let’s face it. I worked out all day today by walking to everyone delivering our version of release emails.