In the 4 years, 6 months, and 27 days that I’ve been employed at the hospital we’ve had a great deal of fire alarms, causing the system to start with the flashing of the lights and the ringing of the alarms. Not one of these has been an actual fire. Heaven forbid they pay for a goddamned system that accurately reports possible fires.
The way its going, I don’t know if we’d know if it were a fire or not. This damned thing doesn’t report the correct location of the the alarm that causes the entire system to trip, and right now its beeping at me. That’s right. This goddamned machine is beeping at me. All the time. high pitched beeping. i can’t shut it off, I try to silence it, but the panel starts beeping again. beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbepp, imagine it beeping at, oh I don’t know, a bird’s chirp pitch, roughly 150 times per minute.
And you can hit the trouble acknowlege button, and that shuts it off long enough for you to turn around, but then it starts again. I’ve tried just holding in the button to get it to shut off, but no dice. I’m stuck here for at least another half hour listening to this hell on earth beeping before the maintenance guy gets here to fix this goddamned fire alarm system.
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Seriously…I cannot think of anything that I’ve done karmaically that bad that would have paid for this last 3 days, HELL, this last half a year! It must mean something good is coming in my future. Of course, this depends on me believing in Karma in the first place, which I don’t. So therefore; the fates hate me. *sigh* beepbeebeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep
the only consolation is this: it is irritating those stuck in the waiting room(ie the drunks) as much as it is annoying me. Silver lining, folks, silver lining.