Chicken Little.
The sky is falling.
Well, the ceiling. And some walls. And pipes. And did I mention the particles of insulation flying everywhere?
Anyway.
I was in a conference room on the second floor for a meeting with the account service team. I have to do a little description of the agency for this to make sense. The whole thing is 3 stories, and all 3 open to a huge atrium (that's actually 4 stories tall) in the center. The ceilings are the industrial, exposed type--pipes running everywhere, etc. However, in some sections, there are "rooms"--places where they've created walls and a second pseudo-ceiling to close it off a bit.
Just to the left of the conference room we were in was one such area.
Picture it--the 5 of us sitting around the table, talking about insurance. Suddenly, there's a HUGE crash... and another, and it lasts about 10 seconds.
The 5 of us freeze, stare at each other, and then leap up and run to see what had happened (and how much does it say for us that the first thing we do is run TOWARDS the problem?).
One of the pseudo-rooms had collapsed. The framing for the ceiling buckled in one spot, which brought the whole thing down. Walls were cracked, pipes were dangling, insulation was falling out. Luckily, no one was hurt (save a guy who banged his knee on a trash can). Apparently it started shaking and everyone got out before it actually collapsed.
In other luck, the sprinkler head was not damaged, so the building isn't flooding at the moment.
This, however, does not make me feel warm and fuzzy about hte structure of this place. I imagine there'll be some lawsuit filing going on over this for the faulty construction. One would also hope that they'll be inspecting the rest of the building to make sure that it is structurally sound.
Is it bad if I hope they do it on a weekday so that we get a day off?
These walls are crumblin' down around me
We've never got any money
posted by K @ 12:54 PM
1 Comments:
nice lyric choice. very appropriate.
also, watch out for asbestos in that insulation flying everywhere, I hear it's bad for you.
ok, futurama's on, tv time ;)
watch for falling conference rooms.
maybe you'll get lucky and they'll issue company hard hats with your name on it or something. then you can come to work with a lunch pail and a hooded sweatshirt and your whole team can sit up on the pipes suspended from the ceiling like in that picture. good times.
ok, tom out.
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