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Loqutis   07-21-2003 at 07:47:31 AM

One of the staff at work was throwing a set of keys up in the air, he hit the overhead sprinkler, its a constant drain system, about 40,000 L of water later, the place is under 3in of water, $50,000 of notebooks and about $65,000 of Electrical gear wasted, Amazing

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melb_angel19   07-21-2003 at 07:50:06 AM
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WOW!
Did he lose his job?

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dhlucke   07-21-2003 at 07:53:46 AM
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I would hardly blame the staff member for that. Sounds like the plumbing was crap.

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silverpig   07-21-2003 at 07:55:00 AM
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No, the way those sprinkers work is they have a very fragile glass tube that breaks under heat stress (read: fire). Once broken, water just pours out...

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dhlucke   07-21-2003 at 07:57:06 AM
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Oh damn. That just sucks. DAMN!!

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Loqutis   07-21-2003 at 08:06:56 AM
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Dunno, I had today off, we have been preparing for stocktake, people had come in from other stores to help us, I went in at 5.30 to do the stocktake but its not being done now.
I reckon he would have to be sacked, destroying company property is a sackable offence

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starbucksaddict   07-21-2003 at 08:11:20 AM
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Doing construction 10+ years ago, we found demolition faster if you cut along the bottom, cut along the top, remove section for sprinkler, and pull. One day, 2 weeks into the job, someone forgets step 3.

We are in a mall....

next to a Radio Shack....

above a Coles Books....

sprinkler system tank holds 50,000 gallons....

20 labourers with push brooms trying to keep it away from walls...

10 labourers with shovels loading it into garbage bins....

everyone fails miserably....

insurance covered it....

we lost the phase 2 contract.

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lhgpoobaa   07-21-2003 at 01:09:08 PM
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Hi stars... aint seen u in a while.

At our place we have "special" construction/renovation people...
They allways manage to destroy things. But as they are contracted there aint too much the university can do about it.

Last time we had major renovation it was on the top floor of a 5 story building.
Taking furnishings and fittings out they somehow managed to break the overhead sprinkler pipe.
Flooded half the top floor, and seepage down the stairwell and elevator shaft made sure lots of damage was done to ALL 4 below.

Way to go guys... way to go.


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svol   07-21-2003 at 08:07:56 PM
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You work at a university?

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Loqutis   07-22-2003 at 04:31:36 AM
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Just got home from work, it all happened when the staff member threw a set of keys to another staff member, he fvcked up the throw totally and hit the sprinkler, damage is about $50,000 in laptops, about 20,000 in other stock and about 3,000 in Electrical, It was really bad packing the notebooks in bags and putting them out the back, Pack Bell ipower, 3.0G cpu $6,000 stuffed, Toshiba 2450 H3 $5400, P4 2.8,DVD-RW stuffed, Portege 3800 tablet $5499, stuffed, as I walk through the valley of tech, I will fear no evil

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lhgpoobaa   07-22-2003 at 05:15:41 AM
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correct :)

<b><i>"Why don't you try practicing random acts of intelligence and senseless acts of self-control?"</b></i> :eek:

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zpyrd   07-22-2003 at 05:41:48 AM
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How did one sprinkler head take out so many notebooks?


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Loqutis   07-22-2003 at 10:40:45 AM
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I dont know dude, the weird thing is, the sprinkler was a good 30 feet from where the notebook rack was, they must be under a hell of a lot of pressure, Its a good thing it wasent a sprinkler in the next row over, we would have lost over $100,000 in pc's and probably about 25,000 in XBoxes

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spud   07-22-2003 at 05:30:24 PM
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Jerk off in his coffee thatll make you feel MUCH better. Doctors say so...

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svol   07-22-2003 at 07:13:07 PM
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And is it by any chance the same university Emma goes too?

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lhgpoobaa   07-23-2003 at 02:00:38 AM
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Hmmm. That would be nice and convient, but unfortunately we do not.

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