Things at Work: Part 4 - Chath Gir Gaya
Scary thing happened today morning now. The false ceiling, along with the concrete on the floor in which I am seated collapsed and almost 20 to 30%of the east wing(I sit in the west wing) came under this destruction. I saw security guys running here and there shouting,"Switch off the A/C and all electric connections". I didnt pay any attention to any of these and was glued to my monitor, where on Sametime, I was chatting with someone in the second floor(mine is ground floor). And this happened:
Him: we will use the new overrides
Him: after the tests. that one has a bit less of logging
Me: are we having the overrides? or are you going to provide?
Him: its in the vishy folder
Me: do i apply it now?
Him: no. wait
Me: fine
Him: is ur ead safe
Him: head
Me: ?
Him: i hear the roof is fallind
Him: on the ground floor
Him: huge chunks of concrete
Me: oh
Me: i didnt know that
Me: its all OK here
Him: look around, near the facitlities section i think
Me: let me see
Me: yeah.. they are asking us all to move to food court
Me: i am vacating my WS now
Him: oh man
Him: u there?
Then, what else? We all vacated our respective work stations, had this as a reason for one more round of morning tea.We were told that as a precaution, they are gonna remove false ceiling from whole of the floor.
People started joking around:
"Man, this is the best way to lay off people!"
"Hey,shall I wear helmet and work?May be I would be safe then"
Facilities, HR etal were busy calling the constructor and shouting at them. Ours is a brand new facility, mind you, not even 3 months old. And still construction work is going on in many parts of the building. Just brings me back to these questions:
a)How much safe are the buildings? With the way in which Bangalore is exploding with concrete buildings everywhere, the builders are just trying to finish off the stuff fast and move to another building. Good thing is that, there was no one injured today at our work place because that portion was vacated just days back and people moved to a different floor, but its definitely not the case at many other places.Yeah, I have read/heard and seen many reports of buildings poorly constructed collapsing now and then.
b)Isnt there someone to check, test and certify that, "Yeah, we have tested this construction and everything has been done properly"?And shouldnt we be moving to a place only after making ourselves sure of this? I guess there should be something like that, but we are ignoring these important stuff because we are in haste.This is more important than test thats done on anything, like fridge, iron box, washing machine etc etc.We do buy things with ISI marks and if there is a sticker that says "Tested OK", we are more confident to buy that product. What about the buildings we live/work?Arent we missing something on our part?
Whatever it is, many of us would be staring at the ceiling from now on, every now and then, just to make sure that we are safe!
Him: we will use the new overrides
Him: after the tests. that one has a bit less of logging
Me: are we having the overrides? or are you going to provide?
Him: its in the vishy folder
Me: do i apply it now?
Him: no. wait
Me: fine
Him: is ur ead safe
Him: head
Me: ?
Him: i hear the roof is fallind
Him: on the ground floor
Him: huge chunks of concrete
Me: oh
Me: i didnt know that
Me: its all OK here
Him: look around, near the facitlities section i think
Me: let me see
Me: yeah.. they are asking us all to move to food court
Me: i am vacating my WS now
Him: oh man
Him: u there?
Then, what else? We all vacated our respective work stations, had this as a reason for one more round of morning tea.We were told that as a precaution, they are gonna remove false ceiling from whole of the floor.
People started joking around:
"Man, this is the best way to lay off people!"
"Hey,shall I wear helmet and work?May be I would be safe then"
Facilities, HR etal were busy calling the constructor and shouting at them. Ours is a brand new facility, mind you, not even 3 months old. And still construction work is going on in many parts of the building. Just brings me back to these questions:
a)How much safe are the buildings? With the way in which Bangalore is exploding with concrete buildings everywhere, the builders are just trying to finish off the stuff fast and move to another building. Good thing is that, there was no one injured today at our work place because that portion was vacated just days back and people moved to a different floor, but its definitely not the case at many other places.Yeah, I have read/heard and seen many reports of buildings poorly constructed collapsing now and then.
b)Isnt there someone to check, test and certify that, "Yeah, we have tested this construction and everything has been done properly"?And shouldnt we be moving to a place only after making ourselves sure of this? I guess there should be something like that, but we are ignoring these important stuff because we are in haste.This is more important than test thats done on anything, like fridge, iron box, washing machine etc etc.We do buy things with ISI marks and if there is a sticker that says "Tested OK", we are more confident to buy that product. What about the buildings we live/work?Arent we missing something on our part?
Whatever it is, many of us would be staring at the ceiling from now on, every now and then, just to make sure that we are safe!
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The sky is going to fall on my head any day. Maybe today.
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