Fun at work last night

[LocuMob]

So I'm at work, doing my job, when the fire alarm goes off. We make cereal, and one of the dryer exhaust ducts was full of crap, and it caught on fire. The crack staff tried as best they could, but had to call the fire department and we all got to go outside. Most of us grabbed our jackets on the way out, we didn't feel like standing around in 30° weather with 20mph winds. Fire Department came and used a bigger hose, that's all we really needed. The fire was put out and half of us got to go back to work in the unaffected areas. The other half waited a bit and went to clean the room where the fire was. Poor guy running the line that caught fire, he was the one who spotted it, was sent to clean a flaking roller, and cut his hand on one of the blades! He didn't know much about it, and is lucky he didn't cut his wrist. Then other lines went down, making management happy, except for my line. It ran flawlessly all night and I didn't have any issues. I helped out where I could but there wasn't much to do but sit back and watch. This is I think the 5th fire they have had since I've been there, 7 years. They have all been little, but I've never worked in a place that is so used to having to extinguish flames on a fairly regular basis. The company almost lost the plant 10-15 years ago when the warehouse caught on fire, so they have a history. Right before I started, they had a huge dryer go up and that area was closed off for 6 months. Something to keep you on your toes! Never know what's going to happen any given day. That was my fun, how does your job compare?

 

[Big_John]

I had to go to do some work at a customer's site in Watertown, NY. It was -10 degrees, but at least it wasn't snowing.

I walked in the plant and fortunately, the person I needed to see, knew that there was a fire drill scheduled. He told me "Don't go back for your coat" about three times, so I took that as a hint to keep my coat with me.

The alarm sounded, and he happened to be standing there as I put my coat on and walked out the door. I was standing out in the parking lot surrounded by freezing people, but I had my coat on. We stood there probably ten minutes... A lot of people were saying "WTF??" and wondering what idiot figured out that a fire drill in 10 below was a good idea.

They went out of business a couple years later.

I was in another place right before I retired that made detergents. I was walking down the hallway and went into the QA lab where I was working and just a minute later, the alarm went off. We went out the side door and waited... Come to find out, an overhead pipe burst and sprayed soda ash all over the place. I had just been in the hallway where the pipe burst!

I stood around for an hour outside for that one, but it was a real nice day, so that was fine.

 

[Zymurgy]

I am a paint contractor so I better not have any fires. However a house in my hometown was going under renovation. I was not involved in the job. I painter left a bucket of paint thinner out, and another contractor thought it was a bucket of water and threw his cigarette in the bucket.

It didn't burn the house down, but there was extensive damage done, and the home was nearly finished.

 

[traintech55]

When I was still working at the railroad about four years ago we all reported for work at the Training Center. We in the building had a start time of 6:00 am. I arrive at work about 5:40 am, and my counterpart on the bus side turns up the heat in the building. Immediately the building starts filling with smoke, the heating unit on the roof caught fire. So talk about the scramble of setting off the alarm and since my bus counterpart and myself were the senior employee's on the scene had to make a quick inspection to make sure the building was evacuated. At least we were able to sit in our cars to stay warm until the all clear was given by the fire department.

 

[Carmine]

Fires are so 20th Century. We have "thermal events". Black Tie, RSVP only.

We rely on global warming to extinguish them. Don't go back for your coat!

 

[67Monaco]

Fires are so 20th Century. We have "thermal events". Black Tie, RSVP only.

We rely on global warming to extinguish them. Don't go back for your coat!

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We had Halon in the hospital data center I worked in. Never had a fire in there. But other parts of the Hospital was prone to it.

 

[Dobalovr]

I had to drink cold coffee as the microwave broke....nearly had to go home

 

[jct]

Past two nights i had nose bleeds the first night took about 10 minutes to stop, last night took about 3 minutes... But on monday a tug caught fire in the engine bay

 

[300rag]

What is this "work" you speak of?

 

[saylor]

I was/am/have been a field tech in IT for a long time, so I've seen some nonstandard **** in operation for sure. i'll leave the fire stories out since everyone has a fire story...

heres one. that I caused. all by myself. major plant evacuation. overnight shift at a 24x7 (very very large) printing shop. running 8 color printing press, minding my own business. I go over to the 55gallon drum of 99% ammonia to pour myself a 1gal jug to take back to my press. (ammonia goes into the ink, depending on how its running right then)

my homeboy comes up to me and says ' hey man its lunchtime lets go' - so we go.

cafeteria is upstairs and a building over - so we go eat a nice lunch (around 2am - overnight shift..)

we come back from lunch, and all 30+ dock doors are open, F.D. there, everyone is outside, total chaos. WTF is going on?

"some dumbass left the spigot on the ammonia open and flooded the place with ammonia"

I had a 1 hour lunch.... 55 gallons of ammonia are in a drum.

I wonder how much that work stoppage cost I shut down the whole place

 

[traintech55]

I had to drink cold coffee as the microwave broke....nearly had to go home

Please don't make me snort my coffee.

 

[traintech55]

I was/am/have been a field tech in IT for a long time, so I've seen some nonstandard **** in operation for sure. i'll leave the fire stories out since everyone has a fire story...

heres one. that I caused. all by myself. major plant evacuation. overnight shift at a 24x7 (very very large) printing shop. running 8 color printing press, minding my own business. I go over to the 55gallon drum of 99% ammonia to pour myself a 1gal jug to take back to my press. (ammonia goes into the ink, depending on how its running right then)

my homeboy comes up to me and says ' hey man its lunchtime lets go' - so we go.

cafeteria is upstairs and a building over - so we go eat a nice lunch (around 2am - overnight shift..)

we come back from lunch, and all 30+ dock doors are open, F.D. there, everyone is outside, total chaos. WTF is going on?

"some dumbass left the spigot on the ammonia open and flooded the place with ammonia"

I had a 1 hour lunch.... 55 gallons of ammonia are in a drum.

I wonder how much that work stoppage cost I shut down the whole place

OOOPS!

 

[hanks71440]

Try not to laugh guys.....When I was a young lad back in 72, working part time in a shop as a chrome plater. Heard a boom and the alarms went off in the shop. Came out of my room and saw that the furnace next to us exploded. Everyone was starting to evacuate but me and another fool. We still smelled gas cause no one shut the main off. We turned around and noticed the door on the same furnace opens. Out comes a ball of fire and burned both of us. We had no hair left on our heads, no eye brows, no mustache. Just like the bikers in Clint's movie Every Which Way You Can. After 2 weeks of relaxing at home, took the 67 chevy for a tranny rebuild. Picked up the car 2 days later and a dump truck ran a light a hit me on the drivers side. Of course I get pinned under the wheel. Fire crew gets me out, asks if I'm ok, I said yes, they let me go and I fall down and break my nose hitting the fricking curb! Seriously...... continued on next post

 

[hanks71440]

Now I have no car. A few days later decided to go for a bike ride with a buddy. Biking on a nice day and this little old lady, yes I said it, runs a stop sign, hits us both and wrecks our 10 speeds. We both survived after some stitches and she bought us brand new 10 speeds(we made out on this). Now I have no car and no bike. 2 weeks later the parents decide to go on vacation to Yellowstone and I'm home alone. Decided to finish painting the basement for the old man. Just my luck the dog(German shepard) was laying next to my ladder when I actuall knocked over the dark red paint on the damn dog. The neighbor helped me get to the vet where they had to shave all the fur off. The parents were not thrilled to see their German Shepard looking like a overgrown poodle. That weekend I told my girlfriend that I was not going to help her babysit. Probably the best idea I had in those 7 weeks.

 

[Carmine]

Now I have no car. A few days later decided to go for a bike ride with a buddy. Biking on a nice day and this little old lady, yes I said it, runs a stop sign, hits us both and wrecks our 10 speeds. We both survived after some stitches and she bought us brand new 10 speeds(we made out on this). Now I have no car and no bike. 2 weeks later the parents decide to go on vacation to Yellowstone and I'm home alone. Decided to finish painting the basement for the old man. Just my luck the dog(German shepard) was laying next to my ladder when I actuall knocked over the dark red paint on the damn dog. The neighbor helped me get to the vet where they had to shave all the fur off. The parents were not thrilled to see their German Shepard looking like a overgrown poodle. That weekend I told my girlfriend that I was not going to help her babysit. Probably the best idea I had in those 7 weeks.

Damn. That's a rough patch.

 

[Vegas Nelson]

When i was a kid in the 60's we were playing ball in the local neighborhood park. It was about half a city block, just big enough for kids up to 12 or so to hit a ball around. I was in right field, near the opening in the fence where the lawnmower truck could come in. Suddenly everyone started shouting and pointing my way. A car was coming onto the field with smoke billowing out of it and flames in the back seat. It got about 50 feet into the field and the guy bailed out as the car rolled to a stop. The car went up fast.

The guy was a painter and had taken the back seat out of an old 58 Plymouth 4-door so he could use it to haul his paint and supplies. This was back before latex, so it was all oil base paint. He said he had tossed his cigar out the window, but apparently it blew into the back into some rags soaked in thinner. He aimed for the first open space he saw. Nobody hurt, and a bunch of kids got a thrill watching the fire dept.......on a real life flaming Christine!

 

[Carmine]

I did this at work...

Which ended like this:

...and walked away with just a few stitches on my left elbow and very minor "tennis elbow" to this day, about 17 years later.

I had just moved onto 3rd shift at the ol' AZ proving grounds. All night long was driving the Jeep on the oval, various procedures over and over to "work" the transmission. At the end of each cycle, you were supposed to do an ABS panic stop, which obviously you didn't do on the track. Instead, you drove off to a separate little area away from everyone. In the process of driving to that area, about 1-2 miles from the track, my tiredness took over and I drifted off the road. When I opened my eyes, I overcorrected and KA-BOOM. Another driver saw me get out of the car and said I looked like a missle leaving a silo.

Test driving sounds fun (and it sure can be!) but it can get a very boring... for every 150+ blast in a Viper, Rubicon trail off-road trip, trailer pull up a gorgeous mountain in Sedona; you're also going to drive a dozen minivans in circles for 8 hrs. In fact, union rules said you could refuse the assigned vehicle if the radio didn't work. Sounds prima-donna-ish, right? Let me tell you, the radios were life savers. We had a little lending-library of books on tape and CD. I never listened to music because that did nothing. But the Art Bell show, KOA otta Denver, and all the other kooky ghost stories, UFO stories, conspiracy theories... God Bless them!

Of course that wasn't the only time I wrecked some Chrysler property, but it was the only time that was my fault! The rest of it was to make better stuff for you guys!

 

[traintech55]

So I'm at work, doing my job, when the fire alarm goes off. We make cereal, and one of the dryer exhaust ducts was full of crap, and it caught on fire. The crack staff tried as best they could, but had to call the fire department and we all got to go outside. Most of us grabbed our jackets on the way out, we didn't feel like standing around in 30° weather with 20mph winds. Fire Department came and used a bigger hose, that's all we really needed. The fire was put out and half of us got to go back to work in the unaffected areas. The other half waited a bit and went to clean the room where the fire was. Poor guy running the line that caught fire, he was the one who spotted it, was sent to clean a flaking roller, and cut his hand on one of the blades! He didn't know much about it, and is lucky he didn't cut his wrist. Then other lines went down, making management happy, except for my line. It ran flawlessly all night and I didn't have any issues. I helped out where I could but there wasn't much to do but sit back and watch. This is I think the 5th fire they have had since I've been there, 7 years. They have all been little, but I've never worked in a place that is so used to having to extinguish flames on a fairly regular basis. The company almost lost the plant 10-15 years ago when the warehouse caught on fire, so they have a history. Right before I started, they had a huge dryer go up and that area was closed off for 6 months. Something to keep you on your toes! Never know what's going to happen any given day. That was my fun, how does your job compare?

Just read this again. What kind of cereal does the company you work for make?

 

[300rag]

Just read this again. What kind of cereal does the company you work for make?

Are you trying to avoid buying the "new smoky flavour" product?

 

['69FuryIIIConvertible]

I finished off one of my new vans so it was ready to put in service, tonight before leaving, I decided to clean up and sweep, I didn't notice the pin for the big truck jack handle wasn't latched....it fell....and clobbered the fender of the new van.....

First accident of 2018, and it was on a van that hasn't even seen 50 kms yet