Spills of various kinds
A friend sent me this video as a joke the other day:
It's timely, but little did she know that when I still worked for B(ig, bad) P(etroleum), we actually had a similar situation.
The floor I worked on had about 600 people on it. It was the trading floor, and we were crammed in there like sardines.
Our breakroom had coffee machines where everything was precisely set up so that you only had to use one filter, one pre-measured package of coffee, and click the water button once to put the exact correct amount of water in there to brew a full carafe of coffee.
This would be fine, except that the people I worked with kept repeatedly pushing the water button multiple times. This lead to the carafes overflowing multiple times, which lead to everyone pointing fingers at everyone else while the water seeped between the walls and actually caused structural damage to the walls of the floor below us in the building.
After that happened, no one but the admin assistants were allowed to make coffee, which as secretaries-in-disguise they of course bitterly resented.
It's funny to me in retrospect; I'm not saying this should be taken as some kind of early warning sign that BP would eventually be responsible for an environmental disaster.
I'm just saying.
Click to viewIt's timely, but little did she know that when I still worked for B(ig, bad) P(etroleum), we actually had a similar situation.
The floor I worked on had about 600 people on it. It was the trading floor, and we were crammed in there like sardines.
Our breakroom had coffee machines where everything was precisely set up so that you only had to use one filter, one pre-measured package of coffee, and click the water button once to put the exact correct amount of water in there to brew a full carafe of coffee.
This would be fine, except that the people I worked with kept repeatedly pushing the water button multiple times. This lead to the carafes overflowing multiple times, which lead to everyone pointing fingers at everyone else while the water seeped between the walls and actually caused structural damage to the walls of the floor below us in the building.
After that happened, no one but the admin assistants were allowed to make coffee, which as secretaries-in-disguise they of course bitterly resented.
It's funny to me in retrospect; I'm not saying this should be taken as some kind of early warning sign that BP would eventually be responsible for an environmental disaster.
I'm just saying.