Dumbass!
You know. . . . there are times when you want to apply a baseball bat to the back of head of people. People, blowhards mostly who think they’re god’s gift to the world and ACT all big and important. Assholes who think the world revolves around them, and seriously don’t understand a damn thing about the world and how things work.
We had standard fire alarm testing at our campus yesterday. An absolutely routine procedure that happens once a year like clockwork. Fire Marshals come out with a crew of sprinkler contractors, meet with our engineers and set off the fire horns and strobes to make sure everything is in working order. It’s annoying granted, to have the horns BLAIRING around you while the Fire Marshalls do their thing, but it is a necessary evil. Previously the marshals were escorted around by the building engineers, who are the nicest of guys, but don’t know the layout of our buildings very well. This resulted in the horns sounding longer then they should have while they tried to find rooms the Marshals wanted to see. In addition, we have several secured areas which they couldn’t access during the test. The engineers banged on the doors to get the Marshals in, but with the horns going off you couldn’t hear them. This resulted in even MORE delays while they had to wait for somebody to naturally come out of these secured areas so the Marshals could go inside. What should have been a simple 10 minute inconvenience has been a 45 minute debacle over the past few years.
Now because I’m trying to play “the nice guy” once again, I decide that I’m going to step up and take charge of the process. We have the testing announced weeks in advanced, emails go out to the global campus, I have floorplans printed up to assist in finding any location, I arrange for cleared employees to be standing by the doors into the secured areas so we can punch this sucker out in record time.
So yesterday morning, 9AM the Fire Marshals show up and I’m in the zone. The Marshals and I compared the lists and the maps I had, we knew exactly how to tackle this with ease, the contacts were in place to get us instant access into the secured areas. . .it was beautiful. So we sounded the first series of alarms and were in process to get this done quickly.
This is when one of our executives sticks his head out of the hallway and tells us we can’t do the fire alarm testing today (yesterday). That there were too many “important” meetings going on and the annual fire alarm test had to happen later. They essentially kicked the Fire Marshal out of the building.
Any head of security, any site manager, any person with 2 brain cells to rub together will tell you that the last thing you should do. . .is give shit to a Fire Marshal. The only thing worse you can do, is to kick them out of your building. . .which is exactly what this Einstein did. I tried to warn them 3 times, that this was not going to end well and that they should reconsider what they were about to do. The executive simply didn’t care, they said their meetings were too important to have the interruption of the horns.
(sigh) This is the kind of bullshit behavior I speak of. People who think they are so important that the rules of the world simply don’t apply to them. That whatever they may have going on at the time is more important than anything else. In very short order, this person is about to get a harsh lesson on just how wrong they are. Between the fees and penalty charges, we’re estimating several thousand dollars. The next time the Marshals are on site to conduct the testing that was canceled, we anticipate being given the “white glove” treatment and being written up for every little violation they can find. . .as well as them using “creative logic” to hit us with penalties that fall in the gray area. TENS of thousands of dollars to address, correct and make the Marshals appeased that we’ve been punished enough. I have their initial penality form sitting right in fornt of me as I type this. You can tell by the written discription on the form. . .they're not happy. Even their forms are vindictive!!!
I’ve already written a report on the events of yesterday, and have documented everything that happened thus far. Thankfully there were several people with us who can attest that the order to cancel the fire alarm testing came from this executive. I can anticipate being called up to the CEO’s office and being asked why our company is being hit with tens of thousands of dollars of fines, and I’ll have no problem serving this self important Ass-fletching wonder weasel up on a silver platter.
YOU.DON’T.MESS.WITH.FIRE.MARSHALS. DUH!
We had standard fire alarm testing at our campus yesterday. An absolutely routine procedure that happens once a year like clockwork. Fire Marshals come out with a crew of sprinkler contractors, meet with our engineers and set off the fire horns and strobes to make sure everything is in working order. It’s annoying granted, to have the horns BLAIRING around you while the Fire Marshalls do their thing, but it is a necessary evil. Previously the marshals were escorted around by the building engineers, who are the nicest of guys, but don’t know the layout of our buildings very well. This resulted in the horns sounding longer then they should have while they tried to find rooms the Marshals wanted to see. In addition, we have several secured areas which they couldn’t access during the test. The engineers banged on the doors to get the Marshals in, but with the horns going off you couldn’t hear them. This resulted in even MORE delays while they had to wait for somebody to naturally come out of these secured areas so the Marshals could go inside. What should have been a simple 10 minute inconvenience has been a 45 minute debacle over the past few years.
Now because I’m trying to play “the nice guy” once again, I decide that I’m going to step up and take charge of the process. We have the testing announced weeks in advanced, emails go out to the global campus, I have floorplans printed up to assist in finding any location, I arrange for cleared employees to be standing by the doors into the secured areas so we can punch this sucker out in record time.
So yesterday morning, 9AM the Fire Marshals show up and I’m in the zone. The Marshals and I compared the lists and the maps I had, we knew exactly how to tackle this with ease, the contacts were in place to get us instant access into the secured areas. . .it was beautiful. So we sounded the first series of alarms and were in process to get this done quickly.
This is when one of our executives sticks his head out of the hallway and tells us we can’t do the fire alarm testing today (yesterday). That there were too many “important” meetings going on and the annual fire alarm test had to happen later. They essentially kicked the Fire Marshal out of the building.
Any head of security, any site manager, any person with 2 brain cells to rub together will tell you that the last thing you should do. . .is give shit to a Fire Marshal. The only thing worse you can do, is to kick them out of your building. . .which is exactly what this Einstein did. I tried to warn them 3 times, that this was not going to end well and that they should reconsider what they were about to do. The executive simply didn’t care, they said their meetings were too important to have the interruption of the horns.
(sigh) This is the kind of bullshit behavior I speak of. People who think they are so important that the rules of the world simply don’t apply to them. That whatever they may have going on at the time is more important than anything else. In very short order, this person is about to get a harsh lesson on just how wrong they are. Between the fees and penalty charges, we’re estimating several thousand dollars. The next time the Marshals are on site to conduct the testing that was canceled, we anticipate being given the “white glove” treatment and being written up for every little violation they can find. . .as well as them using “creative logic” to hit us with penalties that fall in the gray area. TENS of thousands of dollars to address, correct and make the Marshals appeased that we’ve been punished enough. I have their initial penality form sitting right in fornt of me as I type this. You can tell by the written discription on the form. . .they're not happy. Even their forms are vindictive!!!
I’ve already written a report on the events of yesterday, and have documented everything that happened thus far. Thankfully there were several people with us who can attest that the order to cancel the fire alarm testing came from this executive. I can anticipate being called up to the CEO’s office and being asked why our company is being hit with tens of thousands of dollars of fines, and I’ll have no problem serving this self important Ass-fletching wonder weasel up on a silver platter.
YOU.DON’T.MESS.WITH.FIRE.MARSHALS. DUH!