Every Wednesday my office does a fire alarm test. Although it only takes a few minutes, it happens at 10:10am when many people are already deep into a meeting.
It’s loud, so we mute the conference room microphones and sit there quietly waiting for the test to finish.
People make jokes about the inconvenience it causes, but no one is serious in their complaint. The test is there to make sure we’re prepared in the event of an emergency.
It’s a inconvenient by design.