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  • #16
    Apparently the thing my work does if the tornado sirens go off is to heard everyone to the center of the store. Well and good, that's away from the windows. Except it's also close to the glassed-in jewelry counter. The break room would actually be better, it has a table or two we could hide from a collapsing ceiling under as well as no windows whatsoever.

    Hubby and I have decided if there's ever a tornado warning here (we're in Denver but do get them once in a while) that we're grabbing the pets and going to the hall behind the laundry room in the complex basement. Our apartment is on the top floor.
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    • #17
      Quoth earl colby pottinger View Post
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      • #18
        Quoth WishfulSpirit View Post
        Apparently the thing my work does if the tornado sirens go off is to heard everyone to the center of the store. Well and good, that's away from the windows. Except it's also close to the glassed-in jewelry counter. The break room would actually be better, it has a table or two we could hide from a collapsing ceiling under as well as no windows whatsoever.

        Hubby and I have decided if there's ever a tornado warning here (we're in Denver but do get them once in a while) that we're grabbing the pets and going to the hall behind the laundry room in the complex basement. Our apartment is on the top floor.
        Same storm as mentioned earlier in the thread. I was on my way home from work/picking up kids and the sirens went off again. I pulled into the first parking lot, parked quickly and ran inside the building. It happened to be a Wally World. The break room is exactly where they ushered all the customers.
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        • #19
          People are so incomprehensible. Glad nobody was hurt, though.
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          • #20
            I can't believe people were saying it was terrible service (well... yeah I can lol). What did they want? For you to still serve them while you were choking on smoke or burning to a crisp? REALLY? What if the shoe was on the other foot? I'm sure their perspective would change.

            I just hate how people don't seem to have any thought for others and that sometimes, natural disasters, fires, health emergencies, etc, happen and throw things into chaos. I've heard horrible stories about customers in these situations (heard one, I think it was on this site, about a cashier dying on the spot and the customer was shouting at their dead body because of the so-called 'bad service'. I mean fucking REALLY? The cashier is DEAD you horrible dickhead!)

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            • #21
              Quoth mathnerd View Post
              Same storm as mentioned earlier in the thread. I was on my way home from work/picking up kids and the sirens went off again. I pulled into the first parking lot, parked quickly and ran inside the building. It happened to be a Wally World. The break room is exactly where they ushered all the customers.
              At the swamp, the tornado shelter areas are the optical department (lots of walls and lots of counters and desks to huddle under) and the public bathrooms.

              I've never actually had to evacuate to these areas though. The one time I'm told it happened, somebody nearly crashed their van through the front doors because it was raining/hailing so hard they couldn't see where they were going.
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              • #22
                I read somewhere that a lot of people in public places die in fires because they are waiting to pay or get served, even when there is smoke floor to ceiling. And people die of smoke inhalation faster than by roasting to a crisp.

                I always told my children that if they hear a fire alarm to get out, whatever they were doing. It doesn't matter if it's -100 degrees, having a private time with your squeeze or in the shower, get out! You can cure pneumonia, embarasment will go away but you can't cure dead. Good thing I drilled that into them, it happened to my daughter when she was in the university dorms. She got out barefoot and in pajamas in the middle of winter, but she was safe. My idiot ex was mad because she didn't take the time to get dressed and check if it was a real fire (it was).
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                • #23
                  Quoth Monterey Jack View Post
                  Yeah, because NO ONE ever dies of smoke inhalation during a fire...
                  No, it just happens to be the way people die in fires most often

                  These idiots should visit their local Burn Center, or better just just Google burn injuries. They're horrific. This is what smoke inhalation looks like internally:



                  Quoth Cecily View Post
                  My idiot ex was mad because she didn't take the time to get dressed and check if it was a real fire (it was).
                  Kudos to your daughter. She did absolutely the right thing. Your ex is a fucking idiot
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                  • #24
                    I once had to walk through a room filled with burning tire smoke... I was coughing up black phlegm for an hour afterwards.

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                    • #25
                      Quoth Cecily View Post
                      I read somewhere that a lot of people in public places die in fires because they are waiting to pay or get served, even when there is smoke floor to ceiling. And people die of smoke inhalation faster than by roasting to a crisp.
                      When I worked at one of the resorts in Vegas, the fire alarms would go off if a certain exterior door was left open. Would they evacuate everyone immediately? Of course not! We had to wait until security investigated the cause of the alarm.

                      I worked for the box office. The alarm went off during the middle of a show once. A bunch of people in the theater were smart, and left the building. I had to deny them refunds on the tickets because it wasn't a real fire.

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                      • #26
                        It's stories like these that make me realize why the little people in The Sims were programmed the way they were when a fire went off.

                        The programming had them (if you left them alone) run to the object that was on fire and start freaking the hell out with exclamation bubbles above their head with the image of fire in it. Of course the player is going "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU DOING THAT?! GO STAND OVER THERE." You command them to go outside, and if left alone for 5 seconds they SPRINT back inside and continue to scream at the fire.

                        Yup. Now I understand why.
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                        • #27
                          Quoth strawbabies View Post
                          When I worked at one of the resorts in Vegas, the fire alarms would go off if a certain exterior door was left open. Would they evacuate everyone immediately? Of course not! We had to wait until security investigated the cause of the alarm.

                          I worked for the box office. The alarm went off during the middle of a show once. A bunch of people in the theater were smart, and left the building. I had to deny them refunds on the tickets because it wasn't a real fire.
                          That really stinks. I hope they raised a fuss over this, I'll bet the Fire Marshall would have loved to have heard that story!

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                          • #28
                            Quoth greek_jester View Post
                            My question is, why did you bother trying to talk these twits into leaving after the first time they argued? If they fried the national average IQ would actually increase.
                            Probably because their families of Idiocracy prototypes would be the first to sue.
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                            • #29
                              A couple of years ago back when I worked at a casino we had a hurricane coming into the area. Only a Category 1 but everyone around here knows you DON'T mess around with a hurricane.

                              It was SUCH a pain in the ass to pry some of those people off their slot machines when management finally decided to close the place (we were one of the only two casinos in the area open that morning).

                              One guy actually had to be FORCIBLY REMOVED BY THE POLICE after he ignored all our attempts to get him to leave.
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                              • #30
                                My area had to cut down on the number of times they did tornado drills, because they were happening so much and there were so many false alarms (no kidding, if a storm contained more than a couple bolts of lightning the people in charge would set them off) that people weren't paying attention to them anymore.

                                My stepdad once yelled at my sisters and me for not grabbing our pet ferret on the way out the door when our apartment filled with smoke. There was no fire and we never found the cause of the smoke, but we couldn't enter the apartment for a few hours. Little 9-year-old me had to run back into the smoke-filled living room to grab the ferret.
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