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Piero's average coffee time delay:

In the morning, Piero can step into your office and say: "good morning, whenever you want, we'll take a coffee, later". When coffe time arrives, you will step into his office and innocently ask him: "Piero, old chap, let's have a cup of coffee!". His answer needs a tremendous skill to be correctly interpreted. To help newbies, we can give some tips.

What he says......	What does it mean	Average delay time
"Yes"	"I'm just wondering if a new elasto-plastic viscous element can be added to the program. Let me trace down the data structure"	1 minute
"Just a minute"	"I have to rebuild the whole stuff, please, let me carry on my job"	7 minutes
"Just a minute, I only have to say a word to Ghiro "	"The new year plan must completely be rescheduled. Let's have Ghiro's opinion"	3 hs
"Just a minute, I only have to say a word to Mante "	"Current version of our linux kernel has a serious bug. Let us trace down the problem"	2 days
"Just a second, I don't completely like the frequency response in this simulation"	"I want to change an input parameter"	He will crash the whole department network. Two weeks off-line.