In this thread, Cunctator takes umbrage at a fire drill.
You utter cunt.
You do not fuck with fire.
How do you know it’s a fire drill and not the real thing? Even if you’ve been told it’s a drill, how do you know that some arsewipe hasn’t taken the opportunity to set a real fire?
Consider how a fire officer might feel about you if he’d climbed all those steps - in full kit mind - to deal with a real fire only to be confronted by a group of people who say, “We ignored the alarm because we thought it was only a drill.” Consider also how much more difficult his job has now become. Consider also that you are in real danger.
Consider also that failure to respond to a fire alarm can endanger your colleagues. Fire wardens check their immediate areas to ensure that everyone is evacuating and if we (yes, I’m one) have to spend time telling you to fuck off than that’s time we’re not finding the person in danger or helping the disabled person to safety.
Consider also that the point of a drill is so that when the real thing happens, you know exactly what to do. Practice makes perfect.
Consider also that failure to evacuate can be classed as gross misconduct. You do like the money that your job brings you, don’t you?
**Cunctator ** never said that s/he didn’t evacuate, or failed to comply with the fire drill in any way. S/he merely bemoaned the inconvenience. What exactly is this pitting for, again?
Quartz, may I get you a glass of water and a cool cloth?
Considering the level of **Cunctator’s ** OP, this response was pretty over the top.
And, this coming from a guy who knows the value of fire drills, because I used to be the guy who organized fire drills for a group of high-rise office buildings. They’re great, they’re valuable, and they save lives. But, let’s face it, they ARE a disruption.
Alright! Which one of you replaced Quartz’s coffee with amphetimines this morning? Fess up!
I would like someone to show me where Cunctator says he ignores the fire drill? Dude, I would totally be on your side if Cunctator or anyone else suggested staying put when the alarm bell rings. But, come on, you can’t sit there and tell me that you haven’t felt annoyed by some basic training that you have had to sit through again because of some newbie. Which is basically what most people feel about fire drills.
The last time we had a fire alarm at work when I was there, it was because someone in our lab had been boiling some tubes in a water bath, then forgot about them. The water all boiled out and the tubes melted and started giving off noxious fumes. What was especially great was that the person who did it is insufferably arrogant and absolutely convinced of her infallability. Good times. That really has nothing to do with the topic, but what the hell?
Yes, this pitting is just a drill. TLD is practicing the invective he would spew should Cunctator actually ignore a real fire alarm in the future and be badly hurt as a result. No wait, that’s not quite right …
I think we’d better skip the glass of water, and go right to a nice glass of beer or wine…
When I was an undergrad, I knew a grad student who had the fire alarm go off during her thesis defense. It was a real fire, though not a major one- somebody had let the magic blue smoke out of some components in an electronics lab.
Yeah, gotta join my voice to the choir saying, “Somebody’s shorts are too tight today.” Well, I don’t have to - I choose to.
Actually, I could have pitted the blithering fuckwit who kept pulling the fire alarm during my after lunch English class in University. We lost a LOT of class time to that.
This pitting seems way over the top to me. As others have noted - yes, I did participate in the fire drill yesterday. I do take them seriously, having myself once had to evacuate from a real fire. But there’s no doubt that they’re also disruptive, which was all that I was trying convey in my OP.
