A sunny morning. As always, we arrive at the b-ceed office in a good mood, only to realise there’s no internet.
And, of course, no telephone either. Suddenly, you realise just how dependent we are on the internet. And it raises the question: what do you actually do in an event agency without internet? Calling partners, getting quotes and creating concepts probably aren’t options this morning. We usually start our day by checking our emails and seeing what’s new. Today, we’re starting our day in front of the router, watching its lights blink and hoping we’ll be back online soon.
What can we do? Write a new blog post, for example. Of course, we can’t post anything, but at least we can prepare it offline if necessary. Everyone else is busy getting in touch with customer service and finding out what the problem is, so we can get back to work for our clients as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the status switches from offline to online and—just as we start to celebrate—back to offline again. The telephone remains silent. Fortunately, we do still have a spare router as a backup. But that isn’t working properly either, so we can no longer access our company network. There’s always something.
To everyone who tried to get hold of us this morning: sorry. But fortunately, you can still visit our lovely website
anyway. (By the way, we’re currently working flat out to finish our new website, and it’s going to be really impressive!) Now imagine what would happen in your company if the internet went down. Probably nothing at all.
