Sunday, April 24, 2022

Had To Work Today

     A routine failure at work, for which we have backup, managed to turn into a full-fledged disaster of the kind that you just have to ride out, at the mercy of outside forces.

     Power went out and the backup generator came online.  And then after awhile, it died without warning.

     It wasn't fun, especially since we were all counting on the normal, routine, automatic solution.  It did work -- for a couple of hours.  It's supposed to hold up for three days.

     I showed up, shortly after Power & Light fixed the problem and left -- the same problem they had showed up to fix hours earlier and given up after leaving voicemail for our Accounting people, despite our installing their special locks on the gate and having the account marked as "critical, cannot be left off, must speak to a living person," and giving them home and emergency numbers for our techs and managers.

     That frustration was compounded by a genset that mysteriously stopped pumping fuel.  Not my department, and I left the specialists to their problem-solving after one effort sprayed everyone around with diesel fuel, including and especially me.  Yeah, thanks, and if I can ever do the same for them?  I won't.

     What a day to have misplaced my clown nose and floppy shoes.  Fucik!  Send in the gladiators!

3 comments:

RandyGC said...

Sorry about your day. Apparently nobody noted on the calendar that today was scheduled for a Site Visit from Murphy?

Hopefully he'll go visit someone else for a while.

rickn8or said...

...and given up after leaving voicemail for our Accounting people, despite our installing their special locks on the gate and having the account marked as "critical, cannot be left off, must speak to a living person," and giving them home and emergency numbers for our techs and managers.

And as always, there are always people who don't get the memo. It's usually the worker bees because management never sent the memo down the food chain.

Anonymous said...

Ugh. We had a regional internet outage over the weekend along with sporadic power outages, but nothing involving diesel fuel showers. Hope it was something simple like schmutz in the fuel filter. Our of the stations in our market ignored their fuel tank, and ended up clogging all of the injectors. They didn't spend the money to fix, then the Big Storm hit. They were dead for quite awhile before a trailer-mounted genny was brought in, which had to run for over a week.