At the Teradata office in Prague, there is a big group (100+) of consultants that work as labor-on-demand. The group is called the GCC, or global consultant center. Whenever a project in EMEA needs extra people for something like ETL, they can get a couple of trained Teradata consultants relatively inexpensively through the GCC. So these people are based in Prague, but most of the time they are scattered around Europe.
However, they have an all-hands meeting about once a quarter. There is one today. And the office is crazy: people who are rarely here are trying to get caught up on housekeeping (expense reports, what have you) and also catch up socially with each other. It is close to impossible to get any regular work done, and they atmosphere is festive.
It occurred to me this morning that the effect is strikingly similar to when we had events in Ouagadougou when I was in Burkina. The Peace Corps office would be swarming, and even though you only had 'a couple of things' to do, so did everybody else, so it was challenging. And if you wanted a quiet place to read/work/whatever, you were SOL.
It's cleaner than Ouaga in the Teradata Prague office, but otherwise I am nursing some heavy nostalgia right now.
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