Stupid conference room names at your workplace

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They named the conference rooms at my current job after places in science fiction films: the Matrix, the Fortress of Solitude, etc. But that is nothing compared to the conference rooms at my last place of work, which were named after rockstars: Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Ravi Shankar!

What dumb names have they given the conference rooms at your corporate cesspool?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

my last place of work was very fond of the word "rockstar." anyone who displayed a modicum of competence was a "rockstar."

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Where the hell do you work?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf, what kind of places have you worked at, kyle? i think the closest conference room to me is the 5th floor SW conference room. (xpost haha)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Behind me is the Golden Gate conference room - which faces due south and affords absolutely no view of the Gate or the GG Bridge. They could have called it the Potrero Hill or the Peninsula, been equally as boring, but slightly more descriptively accurate.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

to my left, the luxurious 12AW35

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Here we have your choice of The Board Room or The Lunch Room.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i work for a marketing services firm that deals with financial companies.

i used to work for W4LM4RT dot com

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

We had "The Board Room" also.
When I had a job that is.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Our conference room is called "The Conference Room." Maybe I should initiate a change . . .

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 6e, 6f, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 8c, 8d, 9a, 9b, 9c, 9d, 9e

― d'ngullberry (noisemeltdown), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

We have conference room themes depending on what building you're in. Some samples:

The Gap
Gloria Jeans
Orange Julius (these are in the mall, of course)
Reading Railroad
Boardwalk
Mediterranean Avenue
Park Place
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
Aladdin's Castle
Bermuda Triangle

And our internal environments are named after Matrix characters.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I shouldn't complain about remembering which ski resort has my mp3s.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"internal environments" ?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

In one of my previous contracts, the conference rooms at the building I was working at were named after obscure game consoles... (gee, i wonder what kind of job that was.)

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, sorry, they're computer environments for testing software.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Our release levels are co-ordinated with a rainbow.

Before the ski resorts, we had impressionist painters, obscure Scottish Isles and guitar manufactuers.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

mine are all named after local towns, cities, or landmarks...

Boston Harbor
Newburyport
Lowell
Lexington
Concord
Ipswich

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Rufus, that's pretty cool actually, especially the obscure scottish isles.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate this. They should all be named 3-C or whatever (AS MIES INTENDED).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

my last gig had them all named after old west/frontier towns.

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Our conference room is called "the kitchen." There's a power-fridge in there, and a team-sink.

― andy --, Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Ours (at thee bank) for wtf reasons have a "royal" theme - Grand, Majestic, Imperial, and something else I forget. In fact I haven't the slightest idea about which is which, and I can assure you that not one of them remotely lives up to its name.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The first job I had was at a ultra-hip web design agency that tried -- and succeeded -- to blow millions of dollars on edgy office design, including a solid-concrete oval room smack in the middle of the floor in which the CEO imagined twinkling Christmas lights, beanbag chairs, and low lighting, for when employees needed the "chill out" or "be inspired." It was of course never completed and ended up as the dumping ground for extra cables but in anticipation of its unveiling we mockingly called it the "Conference Womb"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Star Wars
Indiana Jones

Oh that reminds me, the first big job I had named all their rooms after Spielberg and Lucas films. We didn't have anything to do with Lucas or even the movie industry though; I think it was just because the HQ was also in Marin.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

we have the fish bowl, the carrot cove, the mush room, the cabbage patch, the rhubarb room, and the pod.

yup.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Ours is called the King Arthur Room because, well, there's a round table. There's a faded Microsoft clipart knight taped to the door lest we forget where our sole meeting room might be.

― jennpb (jennpb), Thursday, 12 May 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

In my last job the meeting rooms were all renamed from logical numbered rooms (which were in a logical spatial order and thus easy to locate), to names of football stadiums, or bits of Melbourne or some crap. This confused everyone, because emails would say "meeting at the Docklands" and we'd all think we had to hop on a bus and go down to Beacon Cove to some fancy conference at a hotel. Etc. Dumbest idea ever.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought it was just our menko company who did this - is there some corporate hivemind that comes up with this shit? Its like that "who moved my cheese" bulldust. AAARGH!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Where I am we use numbers in the room numbering sequence, but I know a place in Cheltenham where they name them after winners of the Cheltenham Gold Cup (but you can see the racecourse from the building, just across the road).

― andyjack (andyjack), Friday, 13 May 2005 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Our conference rooms are numerically named, so far so sensible, but still not terribly well thought out since our main one is called Room 101.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 May 2005 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Dull, utterly dull. Big meeting room and small meeting room.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 13 May 2005 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ours is called Ground Egg. WTF? It sounds like something you'd feed to a toothless pensioner.

― Rumpie, Friday, 13 May 2005 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

an old workplace of mine had the "fishbowl", so called because it had all glass walls. thrilling. in my new workplace all the rooms are referred to by colours. the rooms are identical, but are called the 'red room' and the 'white room' ad nausaeum

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 13 May 2005 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and "The Fishbowl."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 13 May 2005 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

We're an interior design firm and I'm actually quite pleased nobody had an urge to get "more creative" about the subject.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 13 May 2005 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

We have a storeroom called Duncans Den, it became known as that colloquially and now it's stuck and is on official maps. THE POWER OF LANGUAGE.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 13 May 2005 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

We only have one meeting room - the Girls Dept have christened it The Bubble Room. So far I haven't managed to muster the energy to ask why.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 13 May 2005 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

fishbowl

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 13 May 2005 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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