“But perhaps if you kill this chicken and examine its entrails while speaking this Latin incantation…”
I dunno, seems like candles might help in that situation.
We do not allow candles for safety reasons but also because your sweet sweet candles may make me (or someone else) gag.
Our office allows candles. But we’re also a small office with only 14 employees. And everyone is actually bright enough to put out their candles at the end of the day.
I, however, choose not to burn a candle at my desk. I sit in a fairly public area and we have a lot of developmentally disabled people coming through. I could just see one of them deciding to pick up the candle or knocking it over or something to that effect.
- There’s no official policy that I know of.
- Absolutely valid.
A year or so ago, there was a company housed in the same building as my company that apparently had a lit candle in the bathroom. Somehow the decorative tablecloth it was sitting on caught fire, flamed up, and set off the sprinkler. The flame went out immediately, but the water continued to gush out of the sprinker for the next half and hour or so, completely flooding that floor of the building and the hardware store on the floor below. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage for that one stupid candle.
- I have never been told either way but I would assume so.
- Valid. I could see them disagreeing with you but your point is still perfectly reasonable.
Not quite the same thing, but: at the boarding school I went to, you would get expelled for starting any sort of flame inside a building. Smoking outside was against the rules but not the end of the world. But get caught smoking inside, you got the boot that very day.
- Absolutely not, but I work for a fire department.
- Valid, and I’m surprised to read that some offices allow open flames.
I suspect that if you call Modesto FD – or even better, MFD’s Fire Marshal – they’ll be happy to provide some guidance that may help in talking to your colleagues. We tend to be big on fire prevention.
I arrived at an office that was just opening, in fact the lady running it was unlocking the door as I arrived. We went in together and she discovered not one but two candles burning from the day before. Lucky for her they were in glass jars and the jars didn’t break. However, judging from her reaction I don’t think candles will be burned in that office in the future.
Very valid but not from the angle others are thinking. I have seen tons of machines, covered with soot/gooey sludge inside from the candle habits of the workers. So imagine all that airborne crud condensing all over your precious servers internal components and go visit the boss.
Not even close, unless you put that candle so the flame is licking against the sprinkler head. Depending on the type of system, it still may not discharge water.
Wow. That’s a moment that will be burned on her memory forever (pun fully intended).