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klsiegel320) wrote2003-02-24 02:39 pm
klsiegel320) wrote2003-02-24 02:39 pm
Candidate for Darwin Award Runner-Up
I had that feeling this morning - the one that says, "Don't even get out of bed; it's not going to be worth it."
I am rarely wise enough to listen to this feeling.
So, for starters, I thought I snoozed the clock and turned off the alarm instead...
And then I had just "one more thing" to do and made myself an hour late to the office...
And then when I was just trying to leave, I got sandbagged by a telemarketer - from the NY Philharmonic. Now, ordinary telemarketers get very short shrift from me; they're lucky if they get something so polite as "go to h***." But the NY Phil...
And then there's the poor guy in Florida who can't get into the online time system and he's diligently submitted all his offline timesheets with the wrong project numbers and we finally got all the right project numbers for him...and we still can't upload them because nobody was ever set up as his authorized delegate...
And that's about when the fire alarm rang.
Except it wasn't fire - it was flood.
Seems the candidate for a runner-up Darwin Award (mentioned in the title) had turned on the water to the 3rd floor women's bathroom. Which would be fine, I guess, except that that bathroom has been closed for repairs for three weeks, and there are no fixtures, just pipes standing there...
So the bathroom was flooded, and the hallway, and the water was working its way into the main work area, and water was dripping down into the second floor...
So we go outside like for a fire drill, and of course all the smokers light up immediately and puff in the faces of those of us who don't smoke and would rather not...and it's cold...and some people ran without even their coats...
And a friend and I who were supposed to go out to lunch for a business project met up with our other team members and went off for lunch, and at the end of lunch one guy got a phone call that they'd evacuated the building and sent us all home because we've got no phone, no network, no lights...
So how am I typing this? At home, of course! Where it turns out I probably should have stayed, except I would have missed out on a really good Chinese lunch.
kls
I am rarely wise enough to listen to this feeling.
So, for starters, I thought I snoozed the clock and turned off the alarm instead...
And then I had just "one more thing" to do and made myself an hour late to the office...
And then when I was just trying to leave, I got sandbagged by a telemarketer - from the NY Philharmonic. Now, ordinary telemarketers get very short shrift from me; they're lucky if they get something so polite as "go to h***." But the NY Phil...
And then there's the poor guy in Florida who can't get into the online time system and he's diligently submitted all his offline timesheets with the wrong project numbers and we finally got all the right project numbers for him...and we still can't upload them because nobody was ever set up as his authorized delegate...
And that's about when the fire alarm rang.
Except it wasn't fire - it was flood.
Seems the candidate for a runner-up Darwin Award (mentioned in the title) had turned on the water to the 3rd floor women's bathroom. Which would be fine, I guess, except that that bathroom has been closed for repairs for three weeks, and there are no fixtures, just pipes standing there...
So the bathroom was flooded, and the hallway, and the water was working its way into the main work area, and water was dripping down into the second floor...
So we go outside like for a fire drill, and of course all the smokers light up immediately and puff in the faces of those of us who don't smoke and would rather not...and it's cold...and some people ran without even their coats...
And a friend and I who were supposed to go out to lunch for a business project met up with our other team members and went off for lunch, and at the end of lunch one guy got a phone call that they'd evacuated the building and sent us all home because we've got no phone, no network, no lights...
So how am I typing this? At home, of course! Where it turns out I probably should have stayed, except I would have missed out on a really good Chinese lunch.
kls