ProcrastinationOutlook is a wonderful tool, but not when it keeps reminding you that it is now 96 weeks since you were supposed to finish a report you haven't even started yet.
Just how lazy are you? How long will you put off the essential or the inevitable? What do you fill the time with?
(We're too lazy to write something funny here. You do it.)
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chthonic, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 18:18)
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well, you know the scoreBut do your colleagues? Suppose one day someone feels obliged to play Fireman Sam, and sets to with a water extinguisher on an electrical fire?
If they get electrocuted, or burned by the resultant steam; the company *will* pass the blame and liability onto you, for not letting the others know how foolish it is to try amateur firefighting.
KipperFillets has the right idea, more or less. I understand that unless you catch it in the opening seconds, things quickly get beyond the scope of hand-portable kit.
(And at our place, the fire alarm wiring is quite likely to *be* the source of a fire; and I suspect our company would *prefer* us to let the place burn beyond repair, allowing them to make a claim and build a less shite building)
Everyone is vulnerable to the bystander effect. Sometimes no-one wants to be the first to start leaving if the alarm sounds but no danger is imemdiatly evident. History is replete with examples where people hesitated to evacuate, left it too late, and died.
I'm assuming you have at least a passing concern for at least some of your colleagues. You can make them safer by educating everyone, a 'herd immunity' if you will. I wouldn't fight an unwinnable fire, but I might feel compelled to risk myself to rescue a colleague overcome whilst trying.
edit: And there is the age-old reason: the opportunity for a skive.
(, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 10:43, 1 reply)
If there was ever a fire at my workplaceIt would in all probability have been deliberately started by myself anyway.
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You should do itnot because of the liability argument, but if you are actually working on it you can seriously drag your feet and do virtually fuck all else. Spend a few hours writing some reports and making up a training plan and you can probably avoid months of work. Get them to send you on numerous training seminars at their expense.
(, Mon 17 Nov 2008, 13:16, closed)
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