I work in a care institution

There's a broad range of people working there, including quite a few who are always on about X Factor/How amazing Katie Price is/One of their mates being on Jeremy Kyle etc., however this one comes from one of the big wig senior managers.
We had to do our compulsory fire refresher training - what the different extinguishers were used for, evacuation protocol and the like. One of the 'true or false' questions:

"When fighting a fire, you should always make sure there is an exit in front of you" - FALSE - you should make sure an exit is behind you.

This woman wanted to know whether if there was a fire in one of the fire exits, whether we were still supposed to use it. It took the guy doing the training a good few minutes to explain to her that she should use any other possible exit that isn't on fire.

Can I have a payrise please?
( Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 21:04, 2 replies)

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Should've told her the fire exits are for the fires, she should look for a people exit instead.
( GigerPunk has, hopefully, slept since, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 11:36, closed)

Nah...
...should have told her to run towards the fire, leap on it and smother it with her body.

That way the average intelligence of the entire human race goes up just a little bit.

Actually, she was probably suffering from "senior manager syndrome". They spend all their time trying to "make a contribution" and be noticed so they say the first shit that comes into their heads and make out it's profound management advice.
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Sun 6 Mar 2011, 22:11, closed)