Okay, these should come standard with every house:

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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.

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Part of the fun at a metal works is that Stuff Catches Fire. There's a firefighting corps that will when the horn sounds and their pagers go off run from whatever job they're doing to the on-site fire station. They have a stated goal of keeping the response time under five minutes, which has to be pretty impressive on a site large enough to have a building that's a full kilometre in length.

A running joke on my shift is "You have to air out", pronounced in exaggeratedly broad accent imitating a certain foreman.

So, imagine a company where there's a smoking ban, but nobody yet enforces it and takes it seriously, and the metal tappers, traditionally an anarchistic bunch, don't give a damn. In their break room, they're having a serious smog problem this evening, and the smoke detector goes off.

A whole team of smoke divers in full breathing equipment enter the break room. Inside is a single guy, smoking one of his huge cigars.

Quoth the foreman, in his smoke diver persona: "You have to air out!"