The Onion's Special Report Of Internet Outage! :-)

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 The Onion's Special Report of Internet Outage! :-)

This is so funny now!

The onion:

"BOSTON . An Internet worm that disabled networks across the U.S. Monday and Tuesday temporarily thrust the nation into its most severe maelstrom of productivity since 1992."

'Our office was working at roughly 95 percent efficiency," said Steven Glover, an advertising executive and creative team leader at Rae Jaynes Houser. "It's problematic to have the rate jump like that.it sets a precedent that will be impossible to maintain once the Internet comes back." Glover said his department failed to reach 100 percent productivity only because employees stopped work every few minutes throughout the outage to see if Internet service had been restored. According to Labor Department statistics, companies affected by the Internet outage generated an estimated $4 to $6 billion in extra revenue.'

Keep reading... :-) Off to the 2nd G&M night now!

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