Grrrr

My company, Curia, is polling tonight. I don’t normally come in for the phoning as I have experienced staff who supervise and train up the other staff. But I was in today.

First problem is that the main supervisor was overseas and the new supervisor (Emma) had a swipe card for the office but not for the lift – she didn’t realise that one now needed two different cards and thought the second card was a spare. That meant we were facing a walk up many flights of steps.

Luckily another tenant was passing by and let us all up.

Then when we got up there, swiped the door open and Emma goes to the alarm console and says “So what’s the code”. I reply “Umm, it’s on the e-mail you were sent”. Emma replies “I didn’t bring it as I knew you would be here”. I say “Oh shit, it is on my laptop, so step back outside while I look it up”.

But as we do that, the alarm goes off. So I’m phoning the alarm company on one hand and booting the laptop up with the other. I then get the alarm code and tell it to Emma so she can go back in and key it in. At this stage Emma realises that in her rush to get back out of the office, she left the swipe card inside, so now we are locked out of the office and unable to turn off the ringing alarm!

Eventually I locate someone with a spare card, and we start polling only 30 minutes late!