I am so glad I wasn't working yesterday

[ladydouji]

I was at work today and got told about an anthrax scare at the call center yesterday. A package got delivered to one of the departments with some white powder inside. SO the entire place got quarantine with no-one allowed in or out(well except for the hazardous material people coming to check it out, but they were in protective suits) The co-worker who told me the story was amused by how the supervisors handled it. They were all running around getting into little groups and talking because they were scared. Then our supervisor sidled up to her with a bowl of choclates telling her "Don't get scared or alarmed, but there may be anthrax in the building and we're quarantine. Just stay calm and on the phones" I guess the chocolate was supposed to calm her at the news she may possibly contract a deadly disease. Turned out to be a false alarm thankfully, but still I don't think the supervisors handled the situation well, at least when it came to informing the rest of the employees

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freaky

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, that's pretty freaky! I hope the authorities catch the prankster.

hikari
http://www.barcodeblue.com/hikari/log/

dude...

[jo-mako.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it is about supervisors, really I don't. I work the package industry and damn if we get an average of 27,000 of them a night. We've had one meeting on how to handle a suspicious package post 9-11.
ONE! Like with the turn over we have one is gonna cut it. jesus... Eh anyway.

An example of how my supervisors react to a possibly life threatening situation.

take thursday. We have one of the nations nuclear laboratories on our routes. They got a package that had two chemicals in them, that when combined, combust. Three guesses what happened? The stuff mixed and soon the whole place reeked of smoke. What do the supes do? "Oh it's okay, hazmat's taking care of it, just stay where you are and keep working." Sureeeeeeee, we only have a package flaming away merrily thanks to the possibly hazardous as fuck chemicals it contained.

Oh well.

I'm glad everything turned out okay with your work, and I know what can happen when something like that shows up...seen a few meself. ^^

Luv Mako