Yesterday I was saying goodbye for the day to one of my co-workers when I finally caught on to the sound of the third siren having gone down Main Street and stopping right behind the building. My co-worker and I went into the conference room and looked out the window to see four fire trucks, two ambulances, two police cars, and the fire chief’s vehicle parked strategically around three of our buildings with their lights flashing. About three minutes later the vehicles around one of the buildings turned off their lights and drove away. Then the vehicles around the back of one of the other buildings went away. Then the rest cleared out too. Non-event.
I couldn’t figure out if this was just a drill or if it was a false report (intentional or not, just didn’t pan out to be a real event) of something big. Either is such a likely scenario where I work. I finished saying goodbye to my co-worker and left the building. I was walking across the green from my Wednesday office to the parking lot when I turned around and saw more emergency response vehicles surrounding a different building with lights flashing.
It’s unsettling to me that my employer’s footprint is so big that I have no way of knowing if I was potentially in danger or if it was just a drill. I didn’t feel in danger, but I didn’t feel like things were “right” and I’m not quite sure what could have changed in that scenario for me to feel good about it. I’m also wondering who the hell is communicating to us during emergencies because our police chief is on leave while he helps to develop a very worthwhile national program. Perhaps the ability to respond to events while he is away is exactly what was being tested…? Dunno.
I think I’ll write to our president today to ask him what that was about, and ask who is making decisions about using our emergency response system in the chief’s absence.
Scary.
At first I thought you meant Bush when you said our president.
Probably just teleporting super-androids from Mars again. Just ignore them and they’ll go away.
Damn, that is kind of creepy.
Of course, YOU WON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT FOR LONG!! w00t!!!
Empanada, man, I could really go for some Mexican food right now. Heh, I wouldn’t write to Bush about anything at all, but I totally write to my employer’s president whenever I feel like it. He always answers.
Creature, I did and they did. You’re a genius!
Britt, that’s right, because now when there are lights and sirens surrounding me it’ll just be Dawg driving like a madman to bring me my lunch I forgot on the kitchen counter. (*giggle*)
Oh. You didn’t mean Bush? I thought that’s what you meant too, lol.
My husband works at a place like that. They’ve moved to a different location, but during 9/11, his building was right next to one of the most “secret” buildings in the country (they even showed a glimpse of it on some news show which makes me wonder how secret it is).
All of the windows are false…it’s just solid all around. And he has a top secret clearance so he gets to go there and all of the other fun top secret places (like the tunnels under Treasury in DC when he worked there, and the Pentagon all the time now, etc.).
But it’s not so fun when there’s stuff like that going on (I was sobbing hysterically for him to come home on 9/11….and when the whole anthrax scare was going on, he was at the Pentagon when they thought there was some there).
I’m glad you’re safe and I hope you get to the bottom of it. You’ll give us a full report when you get it right? :grins:
Of course I’m a genious. Just ask my assistant Pinky !
On second thought, please don’t.
Someone didn’t get their red stapler back. They wouldn’t listen to him, but he told them he would burn the building down.
So Poppy, I’m curious about you leaving the job. What personal belongings, if any, did you leave behind? What did you take that wasn’t yours, or what do you wish you could have stolen on your way out?
And did you wipe your hard drive?
I thought they did it to celebrate the Poppy! It was kinda like a parade.
Oooh. That can be scary, huh?!
Only about 2 hours and 6 minutes ’til your birthday!!!!!!!
Oh and I love picturing Dawg racing to work to give you with a sandwich with the sirens on. Haha
I’ll make you a bet that in both cases… there were donuts on sale.
Either that or there’s a bunch of newjacks working who don’t realize that those sirens will make them deaf over time.
:grins:
BB, I decided not to write to him. That’s my present to the president — that I not bother him anymore with random shit for the rest of the time I’m at work.
Creature, diabolical.
Pat, haven’t left quite yet, but I did steal a tape dispenser. :shh: And you can bet your sweet ass I’m DoD 7-passing this drive when I’m done with it. If I weren’t lazy I’d 35-pass it.
Maman, and to think I almost missed the whole thing!!!!!
Sybil, I’m totally looking forward to that…
Dawg, they all looked like aliens. I’m guessing they got a directive from the mother ship but she cancelled the directive half-way through.