[throwaway154]

I once worked with new awful in-house software that (thankfully) depended on 3rd party software. We had the legacy in-house system parallel running, which was even more awful. The legacy's awful came from it being unable to do anything it didn't already do without extensive re-wiring, and a team who believed if they don't share their knowledge of it they had a job for life. The replacement's awful came from it being inefficiently programmed with large DB latency due to the team's belief at throwing more CPU behind queries instead of re-writing queries.

The teams sat next to each other but didn't speak.

The legacy team called in a bomb threat to a package left under the IT director's desk. It was taken very seriously. While their cause was already lost, that didn't help them personally.

The new system team eventually called Oracle, who came and re-wrote their queries.

[jl6]

When you say called in a bomb threat, do you mean they reported a package as suspicious?

[throwaway154]

The call-in was an anonymous, apparently, call to the company's switchboard stating a bomb package had been left in the vicinity of the desk. We were evacuated to a separate part of the building for a few hours while it was dealt with.

[Aeolun]

I think it means they call the police (from a payphone if they are smart), and tell them there’s a bomb under the IT directors desk that’ll explode in x minutes/hours.