Since the beginning of December we've been in a single-wide jobsite trailer at work. It sucks. We've had various problems since we've been out there, and we'll still be there for another couple months (until the new office is finished). The main problem that's been bugging my coworkers the most is that the lights flicker and the battery back-ups beep whenever someone uses the copier. One of my bosses, Ryan, went out to try and fix whatever electrical issue was affecting the lights on Tuesday afternoon. Wednesday morning we came into the office to find that we had no phone and no internet and we had a bid that afternoon.
My other boss, Shannon, said that she was done trying to make it all work. She was done with the company even. It's just been one thing after another.
She called the phone company and they sent a guy out. He and Ryan went out to locate the break in the line. It was 11:30, the bid was at 2, and when people were calling in it looked like we were out of business. The stress levels were high.
At noon we heard someone call out, "I've found the problem!" About 10 minutes later Ryan walked into the trailer with a frayed and melted cable in his hands. It wasn't the tinkering with the line that had caused the outage, it was an old, bad connection. So old and so bad, in fact, that it was literally about to catch on fire. If Ryan hadn't messed with the wiring, there would have been no need to open that particular wall up and that cable would have caught fire.
We didn't end up getting the bid, but the atmosphere was different in our cramped little job trailer. I think we all were just feeling pretty grateful anyway.
2 comments:
So glad the problem was located before it became a disaster.
Tough to work under such poor conditions but your positive outlook and grateful attitude will lift others.
This I know.
good story. thanx for sharing. i believe you with the tender mercies. thanx for recoginizing it too.
pops
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