Speaking for myself, I use the Monastery as an anodyne for the Corporate Idiocy I have had to put up with over the years.

At a previous Job, I had a mandatory "staff briefing" tele-conference, every morning at 0815. Most of the time was consumed by various 'bosses' having shouting matches about who was responsible for the current mess. We low-level techs got together on an Instant Messenger conference for ten minutes after the Managers got done, sorted out what was really wrong, and then got started with real work. I got most "Newest Nodes" read during that half-hour.