Pull Notifications

Several weeks prior to Ken Malcolmson’s failure to order the supplies for the company meeting,[228] Ken and his manager, Tina Makovec, were waiting for a table at the Contoso Fine Dining restaurant. The restaurant did not yet have those fancy beepers that flash and vibrate in order to alert you that your table is ready. Instead, the hostess added Ken’s name to the waiting list and suggested that they wait in the lobby. Five minutes later, Ken walked up to the hostess stand and asked if their table was ready. "Not yet," came the reply. Three minutes later, Ken returned to the hostess stand and asked once again, "Is our table ready? It should be listed under ‘Malcolmson.’ That’s M-A-L-C-O-L-M..." "Not yet," the hostess replied, ...

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