Fire Drill brings out the SCs

[fireheart]

There was a story a few years back about a fire drill that occurred in one of the tall buildings in the city. They ended up cordoning off the ENTIRE street around the building because they thought it was a bomb.

Turns out it was a coffee thermos. >.>

[morgana]

I've been in a building fire. Fire on the fifth floor, me on the eighth. You could feel the fire beyond the wall as you ran down the stairs. Gutted the floor. I still have occasional nightmares.

Don't get between me and the door if a fire alarm is going off.

And if some tool of a customer is bitching about leaving, I'll abandon them to burn.

Cynical? Moi?

[wolfie]

We had a fire drill at The Funny Farm where I worked, that fire drill was very essential re: a special OSHA certification we had applied for and all workers got notice in advance, as well as told that it was VERY important that everybody cooperated in order for the place to get the certification.

Come fire drill day, we hear the klaxons blaring and we all scramble down for the roll call... that is, all except for ALL the managers, who were in a middle of a meeting and obviously thought: "eh, eff that, it's only a drill, let's continue".

Let's just say that the drill coordinator was less than amused, management were grumbingly led to the yard where the other workers stood, and we got our certification anyway.

That's MIM material, since the (mis)managers clearly ignored 2 important facts:
1) By deciding that their meeting was more important than a fire drill, they were putting the OHSA certification at risk. If the Funny Farm failed the test and therefore didn't get its certification, they'd have a fun time explaining their (lack of) action to their boss.

2) Sure there was a fire drill scheduled, and they knew it. On the other hand, what's to keep a REAL fire from happening around the time scheduled for the drill? They'd have had a fun time explaining their (lack of) action to Saint Peter.

[Ironclad Alibi]

2) Sure there was a fire drill scheduled, and they knew it. On the other hand, what's to keep a REAL fire from happening around the time scheduled for the drill? They'd have had a fun time explaining their (lack of) action to Saint Peter.

I don't think it would be St. Pete greeting them in the hereafter. And hopefully the new management team would be more intelligent. (One can wish.)

[wolfie]

I don't think it would be St. Pete greeting them in the hereafter. And hopefully the new management team would be more intelligent. (One can wish.)

To my understanding, he's the gatekeeper. For those who are worthy, he lets them in. For those who aren't, "Go to Hell!" is to be taken literally.

[tofu]

our store has a test alarm every single week, on wednesday morning, around the same time during operating hours. its just to make sure the alarms work and there is no evacuation, but i can't help but think that while a regular alarm is probably okay, having it on the same set time is a bit silly - its gotten to the point where we can't take it seriously, and while there's an extremely low chance of it happening .. what if there's one wednesday where a real alarm went off around the scheduled test time? managers get into our store around thirty minutes to an hour before we open with the cleaners, i can't help but think it would be better to test it then, as it is we're just training our customers not to take us seriously during a real drill or the real thing.

i mean, when an alarm goes off outside of the scheduled time we're usually standing around waiting for a manager to tell us if its the alarm glitching (which happens unfortunately), a test, a drill, or the real thing!

haven't had a problem yet outside of a few catbutt faces, melodramatic sighs and customers attempting to get in while we're all outside but .. yeah.

[veniteangeli]

It's becoming clear to me that some people are just too stupid to live. I don't know how many of you saw in the news about the two huge earthquakes we had in Christchurch, New Zealand over the past couple of years, but good grief. I work in a casino, and we had the hardest time getting some of them to just stop playing and get out!

Some of them lined up for the cashier, wanting to change their chips for money before they left! While a 7.1 earthquake was still handing out aftershocks like halloween candy!

One man insisted that we go back in and get his bag from the cloakroom, despite our manager telling him that no one was permitted back inside the building. He complained so long and so loud that our head of security went back in and got the bag - and literally less than thirty seconds after he returned, the ENTIRE FUCKING GLASS CANOPY COLLAPSED. As in, right where the head of security had just run through.

My conclusion, after the last round of earthquake evacuation training? It it hits, I'ma get under the table. If you are so stupid that you're running under falling glass and toppling EGMs then you deserve to die, and I'm not risking my life to save idiots. If you ask me it's Darwinism at its finest - the people who are too stupid to breed are very kindly and considerately taking themselves out of the gene pool.