3 minutes silence

Dr. Dre

Sorry if this isn't the correct forum, but there are conflicting reports about this 3 minute silence today. Officially it would appear it's supposed to start at 12noon GMT, but the RTE site says 11am. Anyone shed any light?

Gilgamesh

our company is doing it a 11am today.
didn't really look into it myself

Chalk

were doing it at eleven aswell

ixoy

11am here and the Irish Independent states that the Prez is leading the country in a 3 minutes silence. 11am where friends are working too.

koneko

11am aswell here

Zulu

It's 11am here as it's 12pm CET.
What England are doing with 12 GMT - I dunno.

TCP/IP

are company is at 11.00am also

Dr. Dre

OK, cheers.

egan007

Yup -el presidente says 11am

Mossy Monk

we are doing it at 12 for some reason

D!ve^Bomb!

ok it's suppsosed to be a 3 min silence.. the radio only had a 1 min silence

ixoy

Radio probably didn't want to loose revenue....

The silence here was a joke and folks continued to chat... Oh well..

Canis Lupus

11 was for Ireland and 12 is for the UK.

angeldelight

yeah we just had it in a lecture a few mins ago, so I'm pretty sure it was 11

BolBill

egan007 wrote:

Yup -el presidente says 11am

And people say she does nothing ......

jhegarty

angeldelight wrote:

yeah we just had it in a lecture a few mins ago, so I'm pretty sure it was 11

its suppose to be 12 CET ... so its the same all across europe.... but lots of companies seem to be doing it at 12....

Mr E

We had it at 11, and guess what? We got a call from a UK customer smack bang in the middle of it. They're doing it at 12.

Zulu

thats why we take the phone off the hook!

Sarky

Barney: How long was that?

Moe: 5 seconds.

Barney: Do we have to start over?

Moe: Hell no!

Mossy Monk

TmB wrote:

They're doing it at 12.

we had it at 12 due to handling UK calls and there was 4 of them in the queue for the 3 minutes

Dave

To be honest, I think the people over there don't really need a 3 minute silence. How about everyone give a euro day, or something that isn't a load of bullsh*t.

Yeah not bad dave, but everyone says, "If only I had the time" Well, why not just donate a day's pay instead? That way, whatever bad stuff happens throughout, you're doing good.

seamus

Heard nothing about it here until 11.03am when I listened to a VM from my gf asking me to mention it to work

Far too busy for a minute's silence anyway (not that I wouldn't have observed it, but none of the people ringing us would have).

Gilgamesh

our company actually put on the queue message that no calls will be transferred through due to this.

Wigertoods

When 9/11 happened a national day of mourning was observed.
approx 150,000 peolpe die in Asia and we observe 3 mins of silence

Maybe I'm Being cynical but if this disaster happened somewhere on the U.S
coastline would this be any different.

Wigertoods

Wigertoods wrote:

When 9/11 happened a national day of mourning was observed.
approx 150,000 peolpe die in Asia and we observe 3 mins of silence

Maybe I'm Being cynical but if this disaster happened somewhere on the U.S
coastline would this be any different.

Thats the sad state of affairs we live in unfortunately.
America invests heavily in Ireland, Asia does not.

Sleepy

Yeah, and I mean, has anyone, like, considered how much this is going to affect Nike? I'm sure they lost entire factories, sorry sub-contracting business partners in this tragedy... :rolleyes:

We did the three minutes silence and I've signed up for the work for free for a day thing. Would love to see everyone do it, it's a far better help than the National Day of Drinking, sorry, Mourning we had for 9/11.

Lump

Yea it was 11 in Ireland and 12 in the rest of europe... At 12, 16 of the 21 tv channels I have were in silence and showing images/messages of sorrow. I rang work in London at twelve... the guy that answered the phone wasn't too impressed that I wasnt taking part


john