Vacation Count Down
There are only 6 more days before I'm on vacation. I can make it 6 more days, right?
Work was more insane than usual by at least a factor of 10. I’m the “acting” Supervisor at work and I swear, if something could happen last night it did. We lost all the phones for 20 minutes. We had a small electrical fire in our room (no actual flames just lots of smoke). For some reason that fire resulted in 7 fire trucks and 1 hour of standing around on the sidewalk. On the upside the rain had mostly stopped during that hour. And an employee and really good friend left to go to the hospital.
To make things better the boss got on a clean up all the work area’s kick last week and all the books with the emergency procedures are put away somewhere. I’m sure they are very safe and comfortable where they are but I for one have no clue where that would be. So I just winged it all night.
Oh, and in a protest against years of being a slave to work via a cellular telephone I’ve protested and refuse to carry one. So I had no phone to call people that needed to be called when we were outside for the fire.
Actually, all in all it didn’t go anywhere nearly as bad as it could have. The boss is at a retreat in Florida all week. I did know his number and one of my employee’s was kind enough to loan me their cell phone so I could call him. He didn’t answer of course but I did update him. And my winging it actually coincided with most of the official procedures. Only thing I didn’t do was place a call the Assistant GM or GM of the company to advise them of the situation. Guess we’re supposed to call them if we cannot reach our immediate SBU Manager. But even if I’d known that I had no clue what their numbers are.
This on top of the joys of a 28-hour shift yesterday... Isn’t this fun? How many days till vacation?
Work was more insane than usual by at least a factor of 10. I’m the “acting” Supervisor at work and I swear, if something could happen last night it did. We lost all the phones for 20 minutes. We had a small electrical fire in our room (no actual flames just lots of smoke). For some reason that fire resulted in 7 fire trucks and 1 hour of standing around on the sidewalk. On the upside the rain had mostly stopped during that hour. And an employee and really good friend left to go to the hospital.
To make things better the boss got on a clean up all the work area’s kick last week and all the books with the emergency procedures are put away somewhere. I’m sure they are very safe and comfortable where they are but I for one have no clue where that would be. So I just winged it all night.
Oh, and in a protest against years of being a slave to work via a cellular telephone I’ve protested and refuse to carry one. So I had no phone to call people that needed to be called when we were outside for the fire.
Actually, all in all it didn’t go anywhere nearly as bad as it could have. The boss is at a retreat in Florida all week. I did know his number and one of my employee’s was kind enough to loan me their cell phone so I could call him. He didn’t answer of course but I did update him. And my winging it actually coincided with most of the official procedures. Only thing I didn’t do was place a call the Assistant GM or GM of the company to advise them of the situation. Guess we’re supposed to call them if we cannot reach our immediate SBU Manager. But even if I’d known that I had no clue what their numbers are.
This on top of the joys of a 28-hour shift yesterday... Isn’t this fun? How many days till vacation?