Perhaps I should start this off with telling you all that while I did fairly well in school I am not always very bright. I hope that after you read this you will still have the respect for you me you had when you began this blog (if any). A few years ago when I started working at Canada Life I had been there for about 6 months and they had just given me and another girl, Mackenzie permanent status. Since Great West Life had just bought us out they weren't hiring people for permanent positions but rather under 3-6 month contracts.
We were given permanent on Friday and the following Monday Mackenzie and I proved just how good of a choice they had made. It was late in the afternoon and we were pretty bored. All of our work was done and our team was sitting around so Mack and I decided to hit up the staff cafeteria to kill time. We figured since we just moved from the 7th floor to the 3rd floor we'd take the stairs. This would have been fine had we not taken the staircase that lead to the forbidden hallway. Looking back now I vaguely remember seeing the GIANT RED letters painted on the second floor telling us No Exit beyond this point. But Mack is like 4'10" so I was looking downward at her listening to her chatter on and not paying attention to my surroundings. We make it to the first floor and open the door. We see a long hallway and then another door. This is weird I think to myself.
Mack goes in first and gets to the door and as I let go of the door behind me she says "Emergency Exit Only. If opened door will sound alarm." Amy: "Oh I don't think we want to go that way ha ha." I turn around to exit the hallway. The door is locked. Shit. Are you kidding me? I can either stay in this tiny hallway until I die or exit the door that will cause 900 employees to vacate the building. Choices, choices. Mackenzie is easily upset so I had to remain calm while I weighed our options and tried to make jokes to keep her at ease. But deep down I was screaming at myself "IDIOT! How the hell are you going to get out of here?" So I did what any rational person would do, I got down on the floor and screamed "Help!" under the door like a lunatic for about ten minutes.
When this didn't work I stood up and dusted myself off. I finally looked around and noticed that people have not been down here in a very, very long time. Double shit batman. An hour has gone by and Mack is climbing the walls and starting to feel a little claustrophobic. I feel it is time to sound the alarm. I tell her what I am doing and we move towards the exit. I brace myself to open the door and Mack covers her ears and says "Wait maybe…" I push open the door and wait for the wailing of the alarm. This is what I get: Beep beep beep. Well fuck a duck. Are you serious? Some alarm that turned out to be this whole time we were stuck in there like dumbasses and we could have fled the scene of the crime never to answer for it. We make our way down the alley to the back door and then up to our desks – the cafeteria closes at 3:30 and it was 4:00 (we finished work at 4:15). Not one person cared that we were gone.
They figured we were down in the cafeteria taking a break until home time. When we explained to our team what had happened a roar of laughter erupted. Three months later we had a fire drill and guess where we were told to exit the building? The forbidden hallway.
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