Unusual two minutes silence

[OwlHoot]

We had an email this morning mentioning the two minute silence at 11am

Then at the appointed time, when I wasn't expecting anything in particular except a quiet time to discretely continue typing, a load of whistles sounded over the intercom, like the end of Blackadder series 4.

Quite evocative, but not enough to persuade a couple of thoughtless tits to stop rabbiting away behind me for the whole two minutes (Indians as it happens, without wishing to sound racist as over a million Indians fought in WW1 and 74,000 were killed )

[mudskipper]

Nothing at clientCo. I don't get all the emails being a contractor, but from the racket going on round me I suspect there was none.

[FatLazyContractor]

We had an email this morning mentioning the two minute silence at 11am

Then at the appointed time, when I wasn't expecting anything in particular except a quiet time to discretely continue typing,

How is that considered silence?

[DaveB]

Announcements over the PA system here ahead of time, followed by another at the appointed time and another 2mins later.

Total silence. No-one even typing.

[Dactylion]

Total silence. No-one even typing.

Quite!

..... a quiet time to discretely continue typing......

Dick!

[NibblyPig]

Myco had a 2 minute silence where the entire office held their breath hoping that nothing cringeworthy would happen such as someone blundering in on their phone

[MicrosoftBob]

In an office of ICTs here, so they were all busy typing away

No announcement, but everyone else refrained from working (But being public sector that wasn't a big ask)

[OwlHoot]

How is that considered silence?

In a word - multitasking

(Getting some work done, but at the same time reflecting on all those who fell in the World Wars ..)

[darmstadt]

As usual, the 11/11 at 11:11, its the start of Karneval season here which means, primarily, nearly everyone in Köln and Mainz went on the razz

[NotAllThere]

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Quite evocative, but not enough to persuade a couple of thoughtless tits to stop rabbiting away behind me for the whole two minutes (Indians as it happens, without wishing to sound racist as over a million Indians fought in WW1 and 74,000 were killed )

Didn't you feel it would have been reasonable to walk over them and discretely tell them to stop being so disrespectful and STFU?