Monday, February 15, 2010

Madness @ Work!

In the room where I work, the lights are on three circuits. To replace a ballast on one of the fixtures, a whole 1/3rd of the room lighting has to be shut off. Our maintenance guy takes, shall we say: shortcuts? sometimes with his own safety. Today, 1/3 of the room went dark. It was dark for a couple of minutes, then the lights came back on. The following conversation immediately ensued, between Maintenance Guy and Cleaning Dude:

  • (lights come on)
  • MG: CD! WOULD YOU MIND TURNING THAT OFF!?
  • CD: Sorry!
  • (lights off again)

    We can laugh now, because nobody got hurt. So of course, we laughed. I messaged one of the guys across the room:

  • VFD: Lockout tagout Fing FAIL
  • TS: I want to see MG glow, so I can call 911

    Nice, very nice. MG said later that he was standing on a ladder with stripped wire-ends in his hands at the time.
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