Facility #2
What's your take on the Fridge incident, Mikey?
I tapped my pencil against my lips as I fixed my desk colleague Mikey with a steely gaze as if he were a shaved Gerbil protesting that it was too tight a fit in there.
The Fridge Incident? Is that what you are calling it? It was just an accident, shit like that happens all the time.
Mikey shook his head as he attempted to write some shoddy code for the Test Team to sneer at.
An accident? That was no accident. Maybe you know something you ain't telling me, Mikey?
I raised an eyebrow in a way which I knew Mikey found daunting.
Look, there are two plug sockets. The Microwave and the Fridge. Someone probably just flicked them both off without thinking.
Mikey seemed confident. Maybe a little too confident. I grabbed my crotch and made a grunting sound as I rhythmically squeezed it.
What the fuck are you doing? Stop that?!?
Ugh, Urgh... URGH!!!
I flung my hand out in Mikey's direction as if I had ejaculated half a pint of Cap'n Bill's Tartare Sauce at him.
He flinched. As well he might, If it had been for real he could have ended up four months pregnant. Such is the potency of my seed.
Tell me, Mikey, you like music?
I growled post-coitally at him.
What? What are you talking about? Of course, I like music?
He grimaced no doubt lamenting the lack of Boom-Dawg Oyster Sauce in his life. He waved limply at his giant headphones as if to emphasise his so-called liking for music. I noticed that they were Beats headphones. Pfft, he didn't like music that much then.
I nodded slowly at him, my eyes thinning like an American President in their second term's hair.
Good job you like it then. It won't hurt so bad when Johnny Bigballs is banging away at your Hairy Banjo then eh?
I flicked a post-it pad along the desk at Mikey who's face was crumpling in horror at the very idea of a hairy banjo being banged.
I have told you until I am blue in the face. I am not going to end up in Prison. So enough with the prison and me getting done up the hokey cokey jokes, ok? Or I will...
I leapt to my feet and took a step toward Mikey. My hand was curling into a fist as if I was squeezing the milk from an emaciated goat in the Mongolian steppes.
Or you will what?
I snarled at him. Mikey was a useful man to have in your pocket but sometimes he needed reminding of just who wore the saddle and ate the straw.
Mikey stood also, his knees slightly bent as if trying to shit in a can.
Maybe I will...
He lifted his fists but before he could go any further a scream rent the air.
We both turned in its direction.
The hall? Quick, something's happened!
We ran for the hall, slamming open the door to see the source of the screaming.
There, beside the elevator was an overturned bucket. A vast soapy puddle was spreading and slowly sinking into the carpet tiles.
A group of people stood around it, shouting and pointing in horror. Including Angles, who looked to have been the source of the screaming. The puddle slowly dissipated as it soaked into the floor.
I turned to Mikey.
What is immediately below here?
Mikey paled.
Fuck, it's the server room?
I frowned and shook my head.
Still think it was an accident? The Fridge and now this, a spilt bucket?
Mikey twitched as if dreaming he was a dog dreaming of being a man.
I am going to find out who is behind this but first...
I nodded to the stairs.
We had better see if we can stop it before it reaches the Servers.
Mikey nodded, his inner woman grateful for my mannity.
We both ran for the stairs...
Where my cousin works, there was an incident where an employee was going to the staff fridge and adding some Cap'n Bill's Tartare Sauce to peoples lunches. This went unnoticed for a couple of weeks.
Of course, when the issue was discovered, all employees who used that fridge had to get tested for diseases.
The worst part about the story is that because of the union, the employee who was adding the unwanted tartare was not terminated! He was moved to a different division and told not to do it again.
That's crazy! In my place, Union or not he would be gone!
The thing that always gets me is how did they know. Did someone bit into their sandwich and say hey, did someone uncle funk on my sameech!?
He was caught by fluke ... he allowed someone to look at a picture on his phone ... they scrolled through and saw the pic's he took of himself while in the act of making the tartare.
That person told security who then scrolled through security tapes. They could see him going to the fridge, taking out a sandwich, then disappearing off camera for a while, then returning the sandwich.
Security involved police who confiscated his phone. -- He has not deleted the evidence, and the photos proved that there was more than one instance.
It sends shivers down my spine. Even though I'm in a different city/company, I choose to use an insulated bag and keep it at my desk. No fridge for me.
Oh man, tat is really foul. It just confirms to be that people will behave like soulless monsters when they think that none is looking. Especially in work, at if they think they are putting out to the man!!
Daft bugger though, getting caught like that!
So ... if you are ever eating your sandwich and it starts to smell/taste like fishy play-doh ...
It's time to go all "Thursdays with Uncle Boom" on the folks at work!
Take no prisoners!
No prisoners at all!!!
If I ever studded such a thing I works level the building!!
hahaha! howdy sir meesterboom, so freakin hilarious, I don't know how you do it day after day! And the artwork too!
Cheers dude, I just keep on grinding!!
Best to buy lunch out everyday. I would never leave my stuff in a fridge at work. I can now though as it is just me lol. Just saw a comment about someone sharing their sauce at work. That is foul and just not funny as I am sure it would make the sandwiches too salty.
I spare it would depend on the quantity of sauce!! Oh good, that is disgusting.
I don't leave anything in work fridges either because people always nick it!
I’m somewhat concerned that the floor is that porous 🤣
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Maybe it's made out of sponge fingers!! :0D
Absolute class :)
Since you retired from being a contractor, who didn't have to care less about spilled buckets of water (although a fridge that has no power with lunch inside is a total pisser), do you now spend some time working on your writings and awesome imagery, on, ahem, someone else's time sir? :D
Nonsense! Bilge!! Someone take this man to himjiminy!!! ;0)
LOL. I know many men who can not see anything messed up because they immediately seek to help, but there are others who do not even know how to change an electric light bulb. Those are the ones who applaud the fact that there are men with more virility than them. ;)
Applause is just what we thrive on!! :0)
I've tried to jump in on a few of these posts but get lost quickly. Would you be willing to let me know the overall theme here? Is this all one long original story you're writing or wrote that you share as a daily installment? Are there cliff notes for beginners?
Hehe, on a Tuesday I put a fictional spin on things that happen in my work. There is always an even to spark it is but the rest is entirely made up. I always play a private eye determined to get to the bottom of the case :0)
That's only Tuesdays though, lol
This new one is based on the accidents that kept happening for a while in my office...
Aha! I finally have a clue. Eureka!!
Lol!!
I should have just said they were the ravings of a madman ;0)
Who needs a holiday?
From a very non IT angle, servers need power, water and power don't mix, servers get upset and refuse to work anymore, takes the company a few days to replace the servers and get them running again.
Everybody gets a few days off.
Check to see if some holes were drilled in the floor to aid this dastardly deed
Hehe, now that would be a dastardly deed is there were drill holes! But you never know!
All hell is going to break loose when that teeny weeny of water touches the circuits of the server. STOP the water from getting to the server AT ALL COST! Upvoted!
AT ALL COSTS!! hehhe!! I couldn't agree more!!
something is not right..... run Boom run
Gotta get them feet working!