One of those nights

[Johnny JJ]

I had a horrible night at work last night.

It started because I got hungry and made myself some chili and toast to eat on site. I threw the chili in the microwave and stuck some bread in the toaster. There must have been something else in the toaster because smoke started pouring out of it. I unplugged it and fanned the smoke away... right into the smoke detector. The building's firealarms went off and caused total evacuation.

The building is big enough to rate a 3 tanker fire response unit apparently. While everyone is miling around wondering why they're in the cold street in the middle of night instead of their office the firemen start to unload and rush in to investigate. Meanwhile there's me trying to tell them "yeah it was burnt toast, my bad guys". That's not humiliating at all.

Eventually the site manager was dragged out of bed and brought to the site to shut off the fire panel and check to make sure everything was in order. He was not pleased. I was sheepish, and this was only 2 hours into the shift.

I try to forget it, write up the report and everything, and walk to another building to patrol when I realize I'm missing the keycard I picked up 2 hours ago because it's no longer on the key clip on my belt. I retrace every one of my steps 3 times and I can't find the thing. So, great, now there's a master key card floating around out there. I can only hope it fell into a sewer. So I had to write a report for that, too. The site manager has yet to find out, but I imagine he won't be pleased.

Half an hour before my shift ended, I dropped the cell into the toilet.

One of those nights I guess.

[Rooney]

I'm probably showing my age but have you heard the song that says "Momma told me there'd be days like this"?

I feel for you, I have had a few of those in my life as well. I hope you don't get into too much trouble for the night.

[Charger]

:D

Take heart, my man! At least feel better knowing you're not the only one. I'm home on lunch at the moment, but just a couple hours ago my partner and I had to respond to a fire alarm at the local high school... Turned out to be burnt toast as well. :D

[ScottFree]

At least you didnt actually light anything on fire, so theres a bright side

[YANG]

holy crap. sucks man. Hope everything is all well with you.

[Mr. Chaple]

I hope your boss does not make a big deal out of the key card. It only takes like two minutes (2min.) and seven dollars ($7) to make a new one.

[sec-guy]

I had a horrible night at work last night.

It started because I got hungry and made myself some chili and toast to eat on site. I threw the chili in the microwave and stuck some bread in the toaster. There must have been something else in the toaster because smoke started pouring out of it. I unplugged it and fanned the smoke away... right into the smoke detector. The building's firealarms went off and caused total evacuation.

The building is big enough to rate a 3 tanker fire response unit apparently. While everyone is miling around wondering why they're in the cold street in the middle of night instead of their office the firemen start to unload and rush in to investigate. Meanwhile there's me trying to tell them "yeah it was burnt toast, my bad guys". That's not humiliating at all.

Eventually the site manager was dragged out of bed and brought to the site to shut off the fire panel and check to make sure everything was in order. He was not pleased. I was sheepish, and this was only 2 hours into the shift.

I try to forget it, write up the report and everything, and walk to another building to patrol when I realize I'm missing the keycard I picked up 2 hours ago because it's no longer on the key clip on my belt. I retrace every one of my steps 3 times and I can't find the thing. So, great, now there's a master key card floating around out there. I can only hope it fell into a sewer. So I had to write a report for that, too. The site manager has yet to find out, but I imagine he won't be pleased.

Half an hour before my shift ended, I dropped the cell into the toilet.

One of those nights I guess.

Let's look at it objectively............the FD got some practice; the key provider
made some money...............feel better.:D

[HotelSecurity]

I hope your boss does not make a big deal out of the key card. It only takes like two minutes (2min.) and seven dollars ($7) to make a new one.

Depends on the type of key card. When one is lost in my hotel we have to reissue new ones to everyone who uses that type of card then go room by room with a reset card passing it in each & every lock in order to prevent the locks from excepting the lost one. At 500 rooms it can take over an hour.

As for the night. The Plant Manager deserved to be woken up. Why is he the only person who can rearm the fire alarm?

[mjw064]

Depends on the type of key card. When one is lost in my hotel we have to reissue new ones to everyone who uses that type of card then go room by room with a reset card passing it in each & every lock in order to prevent the locks from excepting the lost one. At 500 rooms it can take over an hour.

That sounds like some sort of Canadian designed system.

[bpdblue]

I hope that your tale of woe was a story told to make us laugh, because I thought it was funny, very , very, funny.

If it was indeed true, I hope nothing bad comes out of it for you, and when your feeling down some day in the future, re-read your post to yourself, and it should make you smile, like I did when reading it. :D

[HotelSecurity]

That sounds like some sort of Canadian designed system.

Actually Ilco Unican, now Kaba Ilco was a Canadian company :D I think most magnetic stripe activated, stand alone locks have to be individually reset.

[integrator97]

First of all, recommend they change the smoke detector in the break room to a heat detector. I wonder what percentage of false alarms in offices, etc are caused by burnt popcorn in the microwave? It's gotta be pretty high.

My brother dropped his alarm license in the PD toilet once. Obviously didn't go after it. He just hoped it didn't cause a clog, and they'd find it. He didn't want to go there for service for quite a while. :o