![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
And I'm serious.
http://www.lifewisdom.com/gb.desc.html
I think when E is a little older maybe.
Also, it's fire alarm testing day. It seems it takes a fire marshall five fucking hours to verify that the strobe lights and alarm bells on a single floor that was just built out work. It's amazing; I can verify this for our entire floor in under 10 minutes. I've done it this morning, just to see how long it took. It's really fucking hard to get anything done when the fire alarm is going off at times for random lengths of time. And what happens if we actually have a fire? We've been instructed by building management to ignore the alarms, since they will be going off for testing. This shit should be required to be done when the building is fucking empty.
http://www.lifewisdom.com/gb.desc.html
I think when E is a little older maybe.
Also, it's fire alarm testing day. It seems it takes a fire marshall five fucking hours to verify that the strobe lights and alarm bells on a single floor that was just built out work. It's amazing; I can verify this for our entire floor in under 10 minutes. I've done it this morning, just to see how long it took. It's really fucking hard to get anything done when the fire alarm is going off at times for random lengths of time. And what happens if we actually have a fire? We've been instructed by building management to ignore the alarms, since they will be going off for testing. This shit should be required to be done when the building is fucking empty.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
From:
no subject
Let me explain. There are several days to weeks between the stages below:
1. They test fire alarms. They do something to the altered sensitivity of smoke detectors in certain labs.
2. The laser lab down the hall either decides to demo how a CO2 laser can burn pencils, or uses the punch-holes-in-paper method for the alignment of a new experiment. We get fire alarms.
3. The undergraduates in the labs downstairs decide it's a good idea to reverse the polarity of that milifarad capacitor in the experiment, because they heard it was cool and stuff. We get fire alarms.
4. The some sort of semiconductor or another lab in the other downstairs has a graduate student forget a sample on the hot plate, or stick a post-it to the hot plate, or something. We get fire alarms.
5. The semester progresses; undergraduates get bored with sitting in classrooms/training labs, or Fourier forbid they have quizzes, exams. Fire alarm handles are in plain view. We get fire alarms.
Fire alarm procedure is, of course, full evacuation, which they don't even have to enforce because the sound is about as bearable as that in Chewie's torture cell in Empire Strikes Back.