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So I work at a really large company,
Im a receptionist to over 200 people (closer to 300 actually) and we take up a few floors of our building.
Today we here a siren go off and assume that because its not on any of our floors we are fine, quite often we will hear sirens for the buildings around us because they have dozens go off at once and they are really loud.
Still the phone calls start flying to me.... is that our siren, who is the fire warden, what do we do. This is in addition to my outside callers. So I call my boss (ignoring the growing list of callers waiting on a que for me to answer) and ask her if I need to press the "get the F up and out" buttons
I have one that changes the phones to emergancy, one that draws the police and locks all of the doors, one that is a back up to the fire alarm.....
she rings the building manager and he says nope we stay put its not our building.
So I get back to everyone, no no your fine stay put stay put.....
not even 5 minutes later we have 20 firemen come tearing up the stairs
GET UP AND GET OUT, WALK CALMLY, LEAVE NOT, GET UP AND LEAVE NOW, EVACUATE THE BUILDING, WALK DONT RUN, LEAVE NOW
they tear through our floors and start throwing alarms everywhere, mass confusion as people dont know whats going on or where to meet or who the wardens are or what to do....
my boss comes flying around the corner yammering on that shes so sorry but it is a real fire and we have to get out now......
apprently some of the staff saw camera crews on our staff room TV standing outside out building showing smoke pouring out of the lower level....
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massive meeting tomorrow, 4 very scared looking building managers came and had a pow wow with the big bosses this afternoon to explain why our floors alarms didnt go off....
the dickwad of a security officer i have the displeasure of dealing with everyday came and personally apologuised, my boss came and apologuised to me and I am going to be intereviewed by the fire department because I was the only one deemed "proactive" in an emergancy situation...
so big changes apprently, no one, out of almost 300 people knew who the fire warden was, where the emergancy exits are and what to do in case of fire.
this is a massive deal, heads may roll, its apprently a leading story for the newspapers tomorrow, media calling all afternoon and not taking a "no comment" for an answer.
big trouble at work tomorrow.....
but not for me, i came up smelling like roses
Im a receptionist to over 200 people (closer to 300 actually) and we take up a few floors of our building.
Today we here a siren go off and assume that because its not on any of our floors we are fine, quite often we will hear sirens for the buildings around us because they have dozens go off at once and they are really loud.
Still the phone calls start flying to me.... is that our siren, who is the fire warden, what do we do. This is in addition to my outside callers. So I call my boss (ignoring the growing list of callers waiting on a que for me to answer) and ask her if I need to press the "get the F up and out" buttons
I have one that changes the phones to emergancy, one that draws the police and locks all of the doors, one that is a back up to the fire alarm.....
she rings the building manager and he says nope we stay put its not our building.
So I get back to everyone, no no your fine stay put stay put.....
not even 5 minutes later we have 20 firemen come tearing up the stairs
GET UP AND GET OUT, WALK CALMLY, LEAVE NOT, GET UP AND LEAVE NOW, EVACUATE THE BUILDING, WALK DONT RUN, LEAVE NOW
they tear through our floors and start throwing alarms everywhere, mass confusion as people dont know whats going on or where to meet or who the wardens are or what to do....
my boss comes flying around the corner yammering on that shes so sorry but it is a real fire and we have to get out now......
apprently some of the staff saw camera crews on our staff room TV standing outside out building showing smoke pouring out of the lower level....
.
.
.
.
massive meeting tomorrow, 4 very scared looking building managers came and had a pow wow with the big bosses this afternoon to explain why our floors alarms didnt go off....
the dickwad of a security officer i have the displeasure of dealing with everyday came and personally apologuised, my boss came and apologuised to me and I am going to be intereviewed by the fire department because I was the only one deemed "proactive" in an emergancy situation...
so big changes apprently, no one, out of almost 300 people knew who the fire warden was, where the emergancy exits are and what to do in case of fire.
this is a massive deal, heads may roll, its apprently a leading story for the newspapers tomorrow, media calling all afternoon and not taking a "no comment" for an answer.
big trouble at work tomorrow.....
but not for me, i came up smelling like roses
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