Here goes.
"Boom splash" The sound of something horrible comes from the kitchen at work.
I go in.
Employee #1 stands there covered in water. The new water filter spraying everywhere.
I rush to turn it off.
Me - "What happened?"
Employee - "I wanted filtered water so I pushed the button."
Me - "What button?"
Employee - "That one"
She points in the general direction of the filter...or maybe the sink.
I look over and see an indicator for filtered and unfiltered and a switch for both. No button. Then I look behind it, on the opposite side, hidden, unlike the FILTERED and UNFILTERED switch, is a small button.
The hidden button reads "Eject Filter"
Me -"This one?" I point.
Employee - "Ya that one."
Me - "These two say filtered and unfiltered its a switch."
Employee - "I didn't think to read them."
I walk away.
Hours go by.
Phone rings.
Me - "How can I help you?"
Employee #2 - "The power is off in my cubicle"
Me - "Ok I will be right there."
I hear coworkers chuckling as they have come to expect weirdness.
I go to the employee's desk. Everything is off, lights, goldfish bowl, computer. Digital phone works but they get there power from the outlets we use.
Me - "What happened"
Her - "I don't know I was just working on a document and everything shut off."
Me - "Ok let me look"
Now a bit of history, just 2 weeks ago this same employee decided to go barefoot for the day at her desk and shut off the power strip with her big toe. That caused me 15 minutes of my life.
So I figure...maybe that. So I go under the desk.
And place my hand firmly in a 1/4 inch of water.
Me - "What the jebus!"
Employee "What?"
Me - "There is water down here. It's all over"
I see a puddle of about 3-4 feet. A wet spot on the carpet. I unplug the power strip which leaks water out of the fucking plug-ins itself and get the hell out of the water.
I stand up. My eyes roll to the fish tank.
"Fuck" I whisper.
Employee - "What?"
Me - "Nothing....so does your fish tank leak?"
Employee - "Nope. Well it is hot so the water has been evaporating faster than normal. It's low sometimes."
Me - "Do you pour water into it?"
Employee - "Ya I did today."
Me - "Just once?"
Employee - ... "It's been hot."
Me - "So more than once?"
Employee - ... "Ya like four or five times."
Good fucking god!
It's a wonder she didn't blow the entire wall outlet.
I replace the outlet, call some people to clean it.
I come back.
"The fish tank is leaking. You should probably replace it. But no matter what you need to fix it."
I shit you not less than two hours later she was using the fucking coffee maker's coffee pot. Three little nasty goldfish. Now we have a couple extra ones of these so...I guess its not like we will be using it tomorrow but still. What a dicktard.
I tell the boss.
He says "... Again."
I walk out.
This is a fascinating story of one man's journey through a work environment that some may find unbelievable. What follows are true accounts of the kinds of things things that have occurred during normal workdays and the havoc that this man has witnessed. 1 part "The Office" and 1 part pure anarchy has created a thing we call Crisis Management. *Follow the blog as new stories are being posted from his old threads and new topics are introduced daily or as often as he experiences them*
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Friday, December 5, 2008
Water Bottle Toss
Well today is a fine day.
Voicemail - "Hey we uhm spilled a bit of water over here at the satallite site. Can you come over?"
I call them instead of driving over to the other office.
Me - "Can you just clean it?"
Employee - "It's way too much."
Me - "How much?"
Employee - "About 20 gallons."
Me - "Jesus...I will send someone over."
Employee - "Oh ya and it got on one of the computers."
Me - "How bad?"
Employee - "Water is behind the LCD."
Me - ... "Ok I will... figure something out."
Employee - "Ok thanks sorry."
Me - "That's fine it happens."
So I go over there and look. The water bottle is like...30 yards from the computer with water on it.
What the hell were they doing...caber tossing?
Voicemail - "Hey we uhm spilled a bit of water over here at the satallite site. Can you come over?"
I call them instead of driving over to the other office.
Me - "Can you just clean it?"
Employee - "It's way too much."
Me - "How much?"
Employee - "About 20 gallons."
Me - "Jesus...I will send someone over."
Employee - "Oh ya and it got on one of the computers."
Me - "How bad?"
Employee - "Water is behind the LCD."
Me - ... "Ok I will... figure something out."
Employee - "Ok thanks sorry."
Me - "That's fine it happens."
So I go over there and look. The water bottle is like...30 yards from the computer with water on it.
What the hell were they doing...caber tossing?
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