For reasons that I totally don’t understand, many companies choose Skype as a standard communication application. \u00a0I’d understood such a decision if they were using voice or video calls. \u00a0But they don’t. \u00a0Chat only. \u00a0And pretty much everyone knows how horrible Skype is for chats. \u00a0It’s slow, often losing offline messages, its history management is horrible, etc, etc, etc. \u00a0But today’s post is not about that.<\/p>\n
It’s about parallel universes. \u00a0And how Skype is the master of them. \u00a0Consider my example from this morning. \u00a0 I came to work, logged in to Skype, saw who is online and started chatting with one of the co-workers. \u00a0In the meantime, a guy next to me was doing exactly the same thing – came in, logged in to Skype, saw who is online, and started chatting with another co-worker. \u00a0But the interesting bit was that we couldn’t see each other online. \u00a0If we tried to send messages or files to each other, they’d fail complaining that the other party is offline. \u00a0The same was true for those co-workers with who we were chatting, they couldn’t see the other half of the office, which was online, chatting, and couldn’t see the first half of the office.<\/p>\n
Is there any other explanation except that Skype managed to create at least two separate, parallel universes and signed in half of our office into one universe, and the second half of the office into another universe? \u00a0I can’t think of one…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n