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Corporate Manager Sets World Record For Most Amount Of “Any Questions” Asked In A 30 Minute Meeting

INDIANAPOLIS, IN - 33-year-old Prosperity Insurance Group Manager Tiffany DiMarco made history on Thursday by asking coworkers if they had any other questions a world-record 27 times in a 30-minute all-staff meeting about the company’s new reimbursement policies and paid time off request.

According to some staff members, the information presented could have easily been conveyed in a half-page memo and saved everyone valuable time in their already busy schedules. But management insisted on adhering to their commitment to creating bureaucratic redundancies in an effort to win pointless industry clout.

Despite the impressive feat of averaging an “any other questions” every one minute and 11 seconds, the meeting’s attendees were far less impressed, apparent in the fact that nearly every remote worker left the meeting before the last long awkward silence. In-office staff members, however, weren’t as fortunate.

Shortly after Tiffany ended the presentation, representatives from the Guinness Book of World Record barged in with an official certificate and asked everyone to stay in their seats for a photoshoot. “Oh my god! Is this for me?!” Tiffany proclaimed. “I’m so honored. I’m going to tell Mr. Snuffles all about this when I get home. This picture is going to look great on my mom’s refrigerator.” 

At press time, Tiffany was seen drafting a long-winded LinkedIn post about the payoffs of perseverance, motivation, and other vague corporate virtues to her 25 followers.