Copper drain pipes? Those are a natural resource we’ve just failed to thusfar exploit.
Facilities people? What do you think we are, Buckingham palace?
That’s one thing that boggles my mind. If the building is a long term investment requiring tenants to stay there, you’d at least think they’d check in on it every now and then to make sure pips/roofs aren’t leaking, even if it accidentally improves the lives of the people working there.
copper pipes turning black
If it’s not in writing then it never happened so it can’t be our fault. If it never happened then there’s no money to fix it…
I don’t mean to knock facilities people. I’ve known some good ones who you hate to bother with anything because they’ll drop what they’re doing and treat any issue like it’s a five alarm emergency, but when a problem could’ve been noticed by having a guy just amble around and talk football people wonder why things aren’t getting fixed.
“Hey man, the fart smell was because nobody was using the sink. It’s fine (assumption here) to just cut the water on and let it run for a few minutes every couple of weeks.”
My point with that was that the building always smelled like farts in the morning. Everyone knew it and it didn’t matter until it did. The people in charge of that facility sat in another building where it didn’t smell like farts, and by and large even if you had the nose to tell the difference between the normal fart smell and an unusual fart smell, nobody interested had the keys to explore the source, because that’s how office buildings work.
I used to work in a building that would have a smell in the mornings like every third person farted right as they got in the door. It’s the drains, it’s normal, it’s an old building, at least we’re not working outside, we can’t do anything about it, etc. Then one morning it smelled like people were on their game and everyone farted as they walked in. Haha, it stinks, the building is old, doesn’t this suck, could be worse, etc. Then they chased everyone out of the building because they had leaking batteries spewing H2S (and went on to complain that nobody alerted them to the smell and immediately evacuated).
It’s amazing what the average person can get away with not knowing about chemistry until they really need to, very quickly.
I’ll add the em-dash thing to my pile of irritations alongside case insensitive filesystems and the incorrect ways of handling newlines (and time specs, apparently). The em-dash thing is turning out to be a pretty good way to recognize cylons, though.
That article is from at least 2009. It’s always a little shocking to realize how long we’ve been rolling the dice on some of the stuff we do on a daily basis, as a species.
Or you use last week’s peanuts bag and contaminate the “not peanuts” hopper that the folks allergic to them use.