"Bureaucracy was to blame for the bottleneck: Company policy required the chief security officer and chief technology officer to approve every code change. "This meant our department became gridlocked quite often, and we had lots of free time on our hands," Sherman wrote. He and his fellow developers therefore tried to work on worthy side projects, but also sometimes found themselves unable to resist frivolity."
"All that fun took place in the basement of the 17th-century canal-side Amsterdam building the ISP called home, until it expanded into an adjacent office of 1970s vintage and the developers were sent into that new facility. The new office lacked air conditioning, so as their first summer in the new digs heated up, Sherman and his team found themselves quaffing a lot of cold drinks. Lemonade became a favorite, made by mixing syrup with cold water from team's water cooler."
A senior software engineer nicknamed "Sherman" worked for a Dutch internet service provider that experienced deployment bottlenecks. Company policy required the chief security officer and chief technology officer to approve every code change, causing frequent gridlock and idle development time. Developers undertook side projects and occasional pranks, including swapping black and beige keycaps on keyboards. The team relocated from a 17th-century canal-side building into an adjacent 1970s office that lacked air conditioning. The hot summer prompted heavy consumption of cold beverages. The developers favored lemonade mixed from syrup and water from the team's cooler, and one engineer proposed pouring syrup directly into the cooler bottle to have premixed cold lemonade on demand.
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