Alarming
Okay, I set off a bit late to work this morning, still confident I could put metal to metal and make it to work on time, but for some reason (I haven’t found out why yet) the traffic was shocking and I ended up being ten minutes late, and making Rik even later probably. I got to work just as my colleague was opening up since I didn’t arrive on time, and the alarm was going off. I had to call the security company and let them know about the breach. Well, they already knew – that’s what they’re paid for, so they said they’d send out an engineer. Somehow this became my job (apparently I don’t have enough of these ‘responsibility’ things) and had to drop everything to check the security cams and try and figure out which sensors were which in the warehouse. We have about 30 or 40 scattered around the place with ridiculous descriptions that make no sense. I went for lunch and was pulled away again to try to find the main alarm control box, which nobody seemed to know the location of, and non-existent stepladders, which weren’t actually needed since the engineer neglected to inform me he’d already brought his own. I then went back to ‘work’ and had to sign random documents from the security co. to acknowledge what work had been done whilst I was mid-call with a customer and not really concentrating on either. I’ve probably signed away my pension. Actually, I don’t have a pension. That’s lucky.