Posted on 08/25/2005 by BeMused...
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FireDrills,
We've all had them. I started working in the front office of a company that consists of very large glass windows from floor to ceiling. This is a one-story building in a private area.
Recently, they started fire-drills and gave us specific instructions that if the office area were to catch on fire we are all to stand up in our cubicles, line up, and walk calmly and slowly through the door...down the hallway...make a right and go out to the parking lot. Never mind we pass two exits to the parking lot..we must go THIS way.
After a few drills, the Perky HR robot asked were there any questions. I raised my hand and asked calmly would there be any problem if I were to meet them outside when an actual fire occured.
Perky HR Robot looked puzzled and asked what did I mean.
I replied that since I sit near a glass window, if a fire occurred, my chair would be going out the window and I would follow the chair and would pay [company name] for the broken window.
Perky HR Robot did not like my sense of humor and said she hoped I would make it out if a fire occured.
POST A COMMENTcorporateSlave(08/25/2005)
That rocks! Good for you! I'm so sick of companies (or corporate employees for that matter) who take themselves too seriously. While they're busy taking themselves seriously, they miss the obvious...like the 2 exits!
brother from another mother(08/25/2005)
That's great... Where I work the facilities manager lady (who is about 4'3" comes out with an electronic megaphone and yells at everybody to move it. There are only about 100 of us so we could hear her just fine without the megaphone. I call her Blowhorn Betty.
FIRE UNDERWRITER(08/26/2005)
Actually, you're working with idiots. In case of fire, you must ALWAYS go to the nearest exit. It may be dark and smokey. However the breaking of the window may make matters worse. You wouldn't want to be responsible for killing everyone in the office. Never break a window. The fire is sucked to the opening and will fill the room with flames. Remember the drills in school. Put your hand on a closed door, never open a door if there is fire on the otherside. Check with your local firehouse for the correct methods. Let's hope of course, you'll never need it. I'm on the 65th floor here so I'm toast if anything happens. Good luck!
Dr. Madd(08/29/2005)
Sounds like the people where I work. They've all got a Megalomaniac complex.
mamafreeatlast(08/30/2005)
In most office buildings, every other window is breakable. So if you throw a chair or your boss at a pane of glass and it doesn't break, just try again with the pane of glass to the immediate left or right and you will probably succeed. I used to carry a glass cutter in my purse or tote bag until I got this tidbit of information from a local fireman. (Our "fire monitors" wear neon orange caps so we can locate the people who know which doors we are supposed to use. Isn't that cute?)
greenie(03/17/2006)
our store had a fire drill when it was freezing out side all of us pee on's had to go out with no coats, gee where was all the managment?
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