Your Fired!

No, this isn't about me. They decided to save money at work by getting rid of all the security guards. It doesn't bother me at all. I never did really understand why they even had any. We are in the middle of nowhere, and no matter how insane and bitchy our callers get, I really don't think any are going to track us down and go on a wild shooting rampage because they didn't get the number to Paul's Pizza Palace.

In other work related news, we had a fire drill today. I was in the middle of my first break when the alarm went off. It's a loud alarm. At first the managers told everybody to just keep working, but I don't know how they could with that loud buzzing in their ears. The managers decided maybe they should check downstairs to see if there really was a fire, and then decided maybe everybody should go outside, just in case. As far as I knew there wasn't anything going on. I never did find out why the alarms went off. I would rather the alarm went off while I was on the clock instead of ruining my break.

In even still more work related news, the other day when I was driving to work I pulled onto the on-ramp and noticed all the cars on the highway were parked. Not good. I ended up being 45 minutes late, and I usually get there 5 or 10 minutes early. For quite a while my average speed was about 6 miles an hour. What was really cool was for some reason the truckers decided to help the highway construction workers by corralling all the cars into just the right lane. I could see the wisdom in that, hypothetically, but they made everybody merge into one lane about 5 miles before we got to any construction, so for the longest time I didn't have any idea what was going on. A wreck? Construction? Alien invasion? What? There were two trucks in the center and left lane, blocking the highway so nobody could get past them. Eventually, some people who apparently were in a hurry decided to turn the shoulder into a fourth lane, but when the truck drivers noticed that one of them pulled over onto the shoulder. I thought it was cool. Especially since the two trucks that were holding back the rest of the fleet were keeping them all in back of me so I didn't have to put up with a bunch of people trying to merge in front of me.