On: What will happen when a software company downs too...

[thalur]

They haven't taken anything down, they've put down their tools.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/throw_down_one%27s_tools

[pbhjpbhj → thalur]

Except that they haven't. They've just been told to work on other things for 3½ days.

I like the idea though.

[megamark16 → pbhjpbhj]

That's exactly what confused me, they aren't putting down tools, they're just using them for whatever they want.

I really like the idea too, at my last job there was a lot of discussion for a while about taking 4 hours each week to work on whatever you wanted and present it to the group at the next team meeting. It never really panned out, at least not officially.