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caddymanThere is something odd about the wiring in this part of the building.
At lunchtime there was a sudden blip as all the lights went off and then we lost the computers. The lights came back on and immediately the fire alarm made its dreary strangled-cat noise and we were emptied out of the building in the brief hope that it might just burn down.
Half an hour or so later we were back in, of course, but the power to the computers was still down. There is a bank of about forty desks of which mine is one, where if anything goes wrong, we lose all electricity. There is one PC in the block that doesn’t and all in the adjoining blocks life goes on uninterrupted. It’s just our area. Every time.
You’d think that Facilities Management, the people formerly known as Office Services and before that Establishments, would have looked into this, but they don’t seem to have done so. I am convinced that the entire bank of desks is wired into a single 13amp plug somewhere and the fuse blows every time there is a problem.
Either that or the place was wired up by a baboon using bogies and string.
Either explanation is equally plausible as far as I can see.
At lunchtime there was a sudden blip as all the lights went off and then we lost the computers. The lights came back on and immediately the fire alarm made its dreary strangled-cat noise and we were emptied out of the building in the brief hope that it might just burn down.
Half an hour or so later we were back in, of course, but the power to the computers was still down. There is a bank of about forty desks of which mine is one, where if anything goes wrong, we lose all electricity. There is one PC in the block that doesn’t and all in the adjoining blocks life goes on uninterrupted. It’s just our area. Every time.
You’d think that Facilities Management, the people formerly known as Office Services and before that Establishments, would have looked into this, but they don’t seem to have done so. I am convinced that the entire bank of desks is wired into a single 13amp plug somewhere and the fuse blows every time there is a problem.
Either that or the place was wired up by a baboon using bogies and string.
Either explanation is equally plausible as far as I can see.