Monday, July 10, 2006
This just in...Engineers Engage in Anti-Social Behaviour
by Goat, Field Reporter
Orlando, FL - Tensions were high at the INCOSE Symposium today. Armed with free box lunches, approximately 200 engineers were corraled into the same conference room to attend the New Member Welcome & Orientation. Your humble narrator was included in this mass and survived to tell you this unremarkable story.
As one of the first to arrive, I had my choice of seats. I could only assume the purpose of this lunch was for all the scared, inhibited new members to get a chance to meet other people in the same boat. As one of the first to arrive, I used this assumption to place myself in a central location -- not too close to the front, but not in the back, either -- where my fellow newbies could easily make eye contact and commence networking.
It therefore came as a surprise when I noticed that not only were people not sitting near me -- did I smell? -- but that they weren't even sitting next to each other! In a wholly expected display of event, the socially clumsy introverts avoided contact with others.
One can only imagine what will happen at tonight's "Opening Ice-Breaker."
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