How Hard Is It...

I'm currently at work and in a seriously fucked off mood with two of my colleagues. If I could use one word, that word would be incompetence.

I've worked with these colleagues for a good few years and after this weekend any sort of respect I had for them has well and truly flown out of the window.

Yesterday I arrived at work and after pottering around for a bit, I noticed that the Fire Alarm was showing a call point had been pushed on the platform, this is usually someone messing about and pushing the alarm button as they think it's funny, another point of note was that the Fire Alarm wasn't actually sounding, no Inspector Sands, no siren, nothing and seeing as my station was closed and there was only me and the booking clerk actually on the station, I thought "hmmm that's not a good sign"

I popped into the office to check up which call point had been operated and noticed that the Fire Alarm panel in my office was showing nothing about any alarm or call point. Once more I thought "HMMM" so I had an idea of testing the call points on the platform and hey presto.... NOTHING.

Oops that's not a good sign.

So after a quick call to the report centre, all was now being sorted, it was at this point that I thought "I wonder if the alarm was tested today" and after checking I found out that it hadn't been check for two days, so if my night turn colleague had done his job properly I wouldn't have had to do his job for him.

The second thing that has pissed me off was done by both my night colleagues over weekend, a simple thing that is actually so simple my 12 year old son could do it from the age of roughly 18 months.

How hard is it to switch on a light switch... Very difficult if going by the examples set by my two collegues.

Firstly, yesterday morning my night colleague told me he couldn't get the lights switched on in the ticket hall area, and this morning I walked into a semi dark station, I walked into the office and asked what was going on and was greeted with teh response "I can get the lights on".

No shit sherlock, half the platforms are in darkness.

I said to him, did you switch it on from the light switch at the side of the fuse board "What switch???"

Groan!!!

I took my colleague over to the switchroom and showed him the fuse board AND the four big arrows pointing a single switch with the sign platform lighting written on it.

This light switch was installed over a year ago, and was labelled up by one of my other colleague and my colleague even emailed all of us to let us know it was there.

So click.

"And there shall be light"

It was exactly the same with the lights in the ticket hall as well.

So two simple jobs made difficult by incompetence.