The Madrid City Council celebrated the awarding of the San Isidro Medals at the Palacio de Cibeles, with Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida presiding over the event. The ceremony recognized personalities and institutions for their contribution to the development and well-being of the capital, in an event that combines tradition and political agenda.
Municipal software on the verge of collapse from so many awards 🖥️
The medal ceremony forced municipal technicians to update the event management systems at the Palacio de Cibeles, which operate on a database inherited from the 1990s. The software, urgently patched to include the awardees, showed slow response times during credential verification. Internal sources indicate that the system crashes if more than three simultaneous recognitions are added, which forced the awards to be spaced out to avoid a live blue screen.
A medal for whoever fixes the City Hall's wifi 📶
While Almeida handed out medals left and right, attendees struggled to upload photos of the event to Instagram with a connection slower than a garbage truck during rush hour. Some awardees received the honor with one hand while trying to sync their mobile phone to the municipal network with the other. In the end, the only one who left without a medal was the systems technician, who managed to keep the wifi alive throughout the entire ceremony.