Imagine, you want to go to her office - but you can not get in there. You can see your office through the glass door, but you just can not get the door open. And now?
According to the British Guardian, four company employees in Washington, DC, wondered when they came to work Monday morning. The door to her rented office could not be opened because an umbrella had fallen so unfavorably that it blocked the door from the inside. "There was no solution," writes one of the co-workers, Mike Ponticelli, in an article in the online magazine "Vice."
No solution, that meant in this case: The four employees who wanted to go to their office had to stay outside. They considered and considered how employee Ponticelli writes. Hanger had been brought here, with which the clamped screen should be freed, one had neatly shaken - but: nothing to do. Even the called building manager could not help. The door stayed closed.
In a tricky situation like this, the Internet has often proved to be a savior in need. One of the attendees, after two days in which apparently no one got access to the room, took a picture of the door. He uploaded the image on Twitter, with a message to the world: "Nobody knows what to do."
Our friend's entire company is locked out of their WeWork office because of an umbrella, jamming the door.
No one can figure it out. It's been like this for 2 days. pic.twitter.com/ggaUkgYRFR
The Twitter community was not long in coming, help announced: Several users suggested that you could still drill a hole in the door to free the screen. Others had the idea that the employees should simply smash the glass.
For Ponticelli and his colleagues, all this was not an option. The four were summarily moved to a vacant office, which was located in the same building, writes Ponticelli in his article. There, the colleagues would each have shared a charging cable for their laptops and cell phones - the rest would still have been locked up in the office.
Thousands of comments have accumulated under the tweet, so far, the contribution has about 136,000 likes, about 25,000 users shared it. In the end, however, the problem could only be solved locally: someone had to drill a hole in the ceiling, according to Ponticelli "about the size of a gherkin", from floor five to floor four, and removed the umbrella with the help of wire.