Office fire drill

[simont]

Strange how many people wander out of the (hypothetically) burning office having rescued their cups of coffee first. And the project manager who's recently been abroad and come back with a large box of Swiss chocolates mysteriously seemed to have found time to rescue those. And quite a few people rescued their coats as well (of course in a real fire this wouldn't be necessary, since you could turn round and warm your hands in front of the burning building!). I wish I had. Brrr.

Briefly wondered whether the project manager's box of chocolates being outdoors might actually have been a more efficient way to get everyone out of the office than the putative fire indoors… but then again, perhaps they were all happy to take a break from work anyway. :-)

Comments

Burning offices

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

When my office was mysteriously "burning", an ice-cream van appeared outside, and failed to pretend to be a fire-engine.

Re: Burning offices

[simont]

Ooh, it's you! Hello.

Yes, the fire-engine angle worried us a bit too. All our fire assembly points were right out in the front car park, which is exactly where the fire engine would come dashing into at high speed. We weren't convinced that would be good for either it or us :-)

Burn baby burn

[j4.livejournal.com]

It doesn't really take any longer to stand up while picking up your coffee cup than it does to stand up anyway... and I leave my cardigan-type-thing (though not my actual coat) on the back of my chair, so again it's easily to hand if I have to leave the office in a hurry.

If everybody stops for a couple of seconds to pick up coffee and coat, then a) they're obviously not running around in a panic, which is good, and b) it probably means that there isn't such a huge bottleneck as there would be if everybody charged straight for the doors.

At least, that's my theory, and I'm sticking to it. :)

[damerell.livejournal.com]

It comes of working in a building with nothing in but computers. When the fire alarm went at Chemistry we didn't use to bugger about with anything but backup tapes.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Last time we had a fire alarm we spent so long dithering over whether it was a real alarm that anyone who moved immediately could quite happily have picked up their coat, put it on and still been the first person out of the building. Didn't help that it was on the day that the alarm was just a few hours before the alarm was supposed to be tested (and the testing has a history of being a bit early0.

[kaet.livejournal.com]

Fortunately our tea place is in a separate building, so we can keenly race out of the building to be the first in the soon-to-be-long tea queue.