Freewrite Day 448 Fire Alarm
Fire alarms often do not work because people think it is a drill. I often saw this in my risk management work as an accountant. Something happens, the alarms go off, and people do not move to even investigate. Sometimes they perish for this reason.
I have worked in places where alarms went off all day. After a while you do not even hear them and just carry on as normal.
When I was a contractor for the US Navy, we had a few drills. You would not get notice and then everything would start going off loudly and the lights would flash on and off and I would get up to find out what was going on. The Navy personnel would be out at their muster station being counted off. The government staff would be in a certain place they would need to go.
But contractors did not have to do this. They would say, “It’s not for you, you can just go anywhere for about 15 minutes and then come back.”
It was a loophole in procedures. If there was an actual emergency, then what? It was not my job, so I did not have to care.
These wasn’t going to be an emergency anyway. I was on a guarded Navy Base in a back office no one ever went to. So I just went over and walked by the bay.
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It reminds me at the fire drills at school
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