Currently I am on a business trip (what's known as a "TDY" in the military) to Virginia. It's called the "Leesburg Conference". Even though the conference center is not physically IN Leesburg, it's actually in Lansdowne, VA it's still called the Leesburg conference. Whatever.
The Conference center, formally called The National Conference Center (or the NCC as the post title refers to), is a compound that was built by Xerox way back in the days of TQM and TQL. That was what they used to call things like Six Sigma and AFSO 21 now a days. It was built to be 'genius' and 'efficient' in it's design and layout. You eat here, sleep here, have conference sessions here, classes here, on and on. And I will be the first to tell you, it's the most F*CKED UP LAYOUT EVER CREATED. There is no rhyme or reason to where your room is or where the conferences are. It's built in series of underground tunnels that are so confusing that the top medical minds of the Air Force can't figure out where to go.
I would really like to meet the person who came up with this design, and then meet the approval authority who said "This is bloody brilliant! Go with it!" and bitch slap 'em both.
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