Another fire alarm at DCL today. It happened a few minutes ago. I did the usual rounds, kicking people out of the labs (and a class, where the TA questioned if he really needed to go outside or not,) and tried to empty the other offices I saw open.
I don’t know if it’s a language thing or what, but why don’t people know loud buzzing noise probably means something is wrong. Lots of people going towards the exits probably means you should go too. I think I’m going to email the business office on how many TAs I ran into that didn’t know to go outside when the fire alarm went off.
And if you didn’t want to go outside because it was cold and you didn’t bring you coat, tough cookies. It doesn’t matter if it’s a mistake or a drill or a real fire, you do the same thing every time. If you don’t, you die a crispy, crumbly death.
And for the second fire alarm in a row, I didn’t have a briefcase of tapes with me. Dammit. I really need to fix that. We’re doing backup server maintenance tomorrow, and then I’m going to run the November monthlies. Once those are done, I’ll clone the important data and take it offsite. No more delays.
People don’t respect fire enough.
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