Fire drill
Posted by MJ on 22 December 2007
My office building had fire drill the other day and working in contact center, I was exempted from joining the drill. Reason being our customers (and our managers) still expect fast reply from us to solve their problems and answer the enquiries come natural disasters.
I was in the washroom when I heard several voices like they were from far away, “Nak mula dah!”
“Ya ke? Cepat lah!”
“Mari mari! Turun turun!”
“Hoooi, cepat lah ni.. nak bakar dah!”
I wondered what would happen if there were fire and someone was having diarrhea? That sure suck! Do you save yourself or finish your business?
Back inside my cubicle, I heard my team lead shouted, “Where are you?”
I looked up and saw her standing akimbo, hands on her phone. She was peering down the window, looking down at the ground floor where people were walking slowly away from our building. Kononnya, fire drill. They were like from the movie Walking Dead. Haha. If there were real fire, people would run!
“What are you doing down there?!”
“Why did you have to choose this time to go down there?!”
“Smoke?! Smoke?!”
“Tell the guard that you are exempted. Come back here this instant!”
There was actually a list of people exempted from this fire drill. We got an A4 paper plastered onto our cube’s wall: YOU ARE EXEMPTED FROM THE FIRE DRILL.
She ended the call and rolled her eyes at us. “He went down for smoke and he couldn’t come back up!”
He certainly chose the right time to smoke cigarette! Fire drills usually last longer than 15 min and people take advantage to steal some time NOT working and check out other people in the buillding. We wished were part of the group..
If there were real fire, we would be the 1st ones to die. Nah!
