South African corporations name rooms, especially meeting rooms.
Some are very boring, named after people one has never heard of, usually someone in their corporate history. Others are pretty predictable, plants names, place names. Some are quite quirky. A financial organisation has the meeting rooms in one building names so that when you say “I’m in xxx” the resulting statement is amusing. One of those rooms is Cognito. So you may say “I’m in cognito”. And so on.
The organisation where I am mostly working names rooms only after dead people. Each section has names from the relevant industry or scientists who have contributed in some way. Today we were working in Erwin Schrödinger. There were several boxes in the corner. I kept wondering if I opened one would I find his theoretical cat, and would it be alive or dead. Eventually I left at the end of the day without investigating. I felt it may be tempting fate to do so.
February 5th, 2013 at 6:55 pm
The Cognito one is quite good
February 5th, 2013 at 7:45 pm
the first time I saw it I had the giggles for about 5 minutes
February 5th, 2013 at 9:54 pm
Glad you didn’t open any of those boxes, sidey.
Is one of the rooms called ‘Spired’?
February 5th, 2013 at 10:22 pm
… or, ‘Toxicated’?
February 5th, 2013 at 10:27 pm
Hehehe
February 6th, 2013 at 5:37 am
I don’t go there any more so I have forgotten all the names. sadly
February 5th, 2013 at 10:26 pm
When it comes to such names, be it for rooms or streets or buildings, why do they have to stick all the names in in SA these days? In the good old days it didn’t matter how common a name one had, if you were worthy of having something like that named after you everyone know ‘which one’ was involved.
February 6th, 2013 at 5:39 am
I love the two buildings I visit mostoften, the one has scientists and the other IT figures (only the dead ones).
That still leads to the rather macabre “I’m in Grace Hopper” and looking forward to being in Steve Jobs. Makes one sound a little like a cemetry worm.
February 6th, 2013 at 12:51 am
The cognito room is a good one. Any more like that to share?
February 6th, 2013 at 5:40 am
I can’t remember them – *getting old*
February 6th, 2013 at 10:13 am
February 6th, 2013 at 4:14 am
Hmm, I wonder if I would have succumbed to the temptation (re Erwin Schrödinger room) – I know I would have felt strongly tempted.
February 6th, 2013 at 5:41 am
I was hoping for 5 minutes alone. No one else there would have understood the joke. In fact there are only 2 on the project who read widely enough to know what the joke would have been.
February 6th, 2013 at 6:11 am
No question, curiosity would killed this Cat. Glasses and a bow tie? Fate and free will would not hang out in tidy boxes? Either way, more to this than naming of a room. As long as the rooms we inhabit have a way out for us at the end of day, we’ll be fine. Won’t we?
February 6th, 2013 at 7:47 am
It is the decaying particle tat decides the cats status….
Named rooms can be difficult to find the first time, but easier in conversation
February 6th, 2013 at 3:22 pm
oh, then a fossil I am.
February 6th, 2013 at 9:52 am
Oh Please do I would love to know
February 6th, 2013 at 4:30 pm
The room is locked when not booked, so I couldn’t sneak back and check
February 6th, 2013 at 5:48 pm
I love the thought of being in Schrödinger. A whole new way of seeing things!
February 7th, 2013 at 12:18 am
I have to make my own fun some ays