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Soooo our roof almost collapsed..
15 years ago
People to pay attention to! Lavish them with goodness!
:Recieving Incoming Transmission:
... yep! Roof almost collapsed.
I was at work and after about 3 hours our supervisor came in with
two security guards and said-
"We need to evacuate the building and relocate. The sky is falling."
The excess snow atop the building was starting to cave in the
roof and causing it to buckle at certain spots. One point was mere feet
away from our little IT corner. We were forced to evacuate and relocate
into a more cramped computer lab in another location.
Best part? I'm basically fully trained under the password reset queue as per the
temp job I did with Advocate a month ago. The calls we get can be routed to go
to either the Support queue which handles all support (duh) calls,
and then there's the password reset queue, which handles password
resets, of course, but while we were at the secondary location, they didn't
have the ability to route calls, so every call was a support call, and without
proper or prior training, I was shoved into the support queue and taking support calls.
Oh it was a grand experience. I had help but still, no prior
experience, no schooling, no training and no expectation
and suddenly..
BAM!
..support queue.
I managed to survive... so now I need two shirts. "I drove in and survived
the blizzard of 2011." and "I survived the support queue."
Another note, THUNDERSNOW is fscking awesome and
should always be said in caps and in your
best movie-phone-guy trailer voice.
By the way, yes, I was driving in the morning on Wednesday in the
bulk of the blizzard just to get to work. To all of you saying
"I survived the blizzard of 2011." and all
you did was stay at home... *death glare*
Fun times though, I woke up on Wednesday to clean the 3 feet of snow off
my car and my windshield wiper on the driver side broke off, ended up
trying to keep it on my windshield with zip ties. On my way to work my
muffler cracked in half from hitting so many snow drifts. Two notes, it
was old, already had a patch over it and that patch was ripped right
off. Almost got hit 4 times, twice by plows, but I made it
safely to work where out of 8 people who usually show up, was
only me and 3 others. Out of the 5, 4 who couldn't make it, 3 lived
close-by where I am, and ALL of them have 4 wheel drive SUVs... me?
95' Pontiac P.O.S. with 2 wheel drive and only 3 snow tires.
... \o/ ...
Take that THUNDERSNOW.
Also the funniest thing that happened on that day? I was driving through the
blinding wind and snow, I saw a snow plow stuck in a snow drift, being
unburied by a bobcat, who was also stuck, who needed help by a third
bobcat who almost got stuck... meanwhile me in my Pontiac P.O.S. just
cruuuuisin on by, laughin my ass off. Then I almost got stuck..
..Thanks Karma, you're supposed to be on my side. *angry face*
Anyway, because we braved the storm, we at the office (who were able to make it)
were dubbed honorary Stormtroopers lul.
... anyway, shit it's been a crazy week. I might've missed something, I dunno
I'm tired as fsck and I need sleep.
Back to arting tomorrow! *collapses* "I am allergic to things I do not want to do." -Michael J. Caboose
:End Transmission:
Commission List:Aperture:1.0-SHUT DOWNAperture:2.0-SHUT DOWNAperture:3.0-SHUT DOWNRequests:Aperture:1.0-LOCKED-Trades:Aperture:1.0-SHUT DOWNAlso, pay these people some love too! They all deserve every bit of it!
...THUNDERSNOW!
:hugs: Aye. At least we get to talk to each other 'bout it
And yes there needs to be a movie called THUNDASNOW!!!
Oh yeah, that's right, we are always scheduled and unless there is a day where -EVERY- -SINGLE- hospital that uses our software and hardware, systematically closes or goes on holiday, we'll always be working.
Yay working in the medical field. ;-;
Step 2: Clean off the snow.
Step 3: if step two cannot be accomplished, proceed to step 6.
Step 4: breathe a sigh of relief.
Step 5: if it snows again, follow step 3.
Step 6: Panic.
Step 7: stop panicking and clean that snow!
Step 8: proceed to step 3.
*attempts to steal your local temperature!*
Feels like summer here. Given we only have two seasons...