You are right. How revealing! I'm going to try the no smoking sign one. Don't want to be combative, but I have converted 5 smokers who have approached me out of curiosity and ended up getting an ecig and quitting analogs as a result.
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OK - so today I majorly trusted you pwyll - i let out a huge vape that wafted in a large plume in slo mo towards the smoke detectors in the office building.....I was at first goin noooooooo (insert slo mo low voice here) and nothing happened - well, I might have almost went into hiding - but nothing happened. And I thought, right there n then, well damn! Pwyll was right! (Reminder,...our office building was closed down on Halloween day for two hours when we set off dry ice in our conference room - the banks on the first 4 floors were tiiiiiiiiicked at us)
Oh jeeze...that is so wrong on so many levels that I don't even know where to start...
You do realize that "I read it on the internet so it must be true" is supposed to be
, right?Oh, yeah. That. Well, your el-super-cheapy smoke alarms only test for particulate matter, so they give a lot of false negatives and miss a lot of fires, so it's hard to find them in the US. The low-grade ones available here just test for carbon, so that way they're going off if there's a lot of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide or carbon particles. Not going to find vape.
I work in a high-security room with an instant isolation system and a halon-dump that costs $37,000 to reload (we found that out when someone tried to sneak a cigarette in here). The fire/smoke detectors actually monitor the nitrogen/hydrogen/oxygen ratio and go off if there's a statistically significant "change in the atmosphere" (of the room, obviously). I didn't set it off when I first started vaping (even though I tried)--and it's been known to go off when one of the air conditioners in here blew a transformer.
But still, trusting me is not a good idea...
I had a great time vaping at my desk at my old job. Everyone around me was either intrigued, or loved the smell. Untill the higher ups pulled the plug on it, cause "People" were complaining. But because i am so open about it, it was noone anywhere near me, so i just decided to work somewhere else. I need more money to buy more Butterfly bait anyway.
LOL, I vaped alot in our hi-sec climatized and monitored server room. We get alarms for even keeping the exterior door open for a few minutes...But the temp in there is so nice during the summer. 3 out of 5 people that can get in there wouldn't even care if they knew. So far no halon dump from vaping (although it isn't supposed to dump Halon if there is someone in the room). Can't tell you how many times I have been in there vaping and thinking...how fun would it be to pull that big red knob on the wall.......I did get to see it go into full-on thermal emergency when we were testing...wow! It was incredible.
Oh jeeze...that is so wrong on so many levels that I don't even know where to start...
You do realize that "I read it on the internet so it must be true" is supposed to be View attachment 74924, right?
Oh, yeah. That. Well, your el-super-cheapy smoke alarms only test for particulate matter, so they give a lot of false negatives and miss a lot of fires, so it's hard to find them in the US. The low-grade ones available here just test for carbon, so that way they're going off if there's a lot of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide or carbon particles. Not going to find vape.
I work in a high-security room with an instant isolation system and a halon-dump that costs $37,000 to reload (we found that out when someone tried to sneak a cigarette in here). The fire/smoke detectors actually monitor the nitrogen/hydrogen/oxygen ratio and go off if there's a statistically significant "change in the atmosphere" (of the room, obviously). I didn't set it off when I first started vaping (even though I tried)--and it's been known to go off when one of the air conditioners in here blew a transformer.
But still, trusting me is not a good idea...
Ours goes into a cartoony sort of EMERGENCY! cavaclade with the lights and the sirens and the buzzers and the horns--and you have 11 seconds to exit the room before the emergency shutters drop. Luckily there's no limit on the door being open, especially since the piece of crap has a tendency to break down a lot and can be open for a day or two at a time sometimes. The monitoring system does occasionally give off a high-pitched whiney little alarm, until we push the "acknowledge," button just to let us know 'system is normal.'
Pwyll and Master must be in the CIA or FBI or something. Hope your new job let's you vape Titan. I just got a big bottle of BB and am vaping it as we squeak.
I'm a trained monkey for the state--we print the letters that tell whether someone got medicaid or not, what hoops someone else is going to have to jump through to get unemployment, how much child support that person owes, &c. Most of the forms deal with what's considered "private data," hence the 'high security' rating of the room. A couple of forms will sometimes contain private data from the [echo] Federal Government [/echo], which is why we are required to have the fire suppression system we do.
I'd take it a lot more seriously if it weren't for some of the people with whom I work...
i dont think it will be an issue, im going to work for people that think before they make decisions. Will be a nice change of pace.
Just a "Data Center" they like to call it. Genetics and Medical research data...but it is all gov contracts. contract=hoop=SOP for jumping through it.
We have inter-cooling racks so every time one rack gets breathed on we have to reset the status on it...whiny little things...but they won't adjust the threshold on them. Thank goodness I only go in there anymore to cool down or when we put in new boxes.
We have inter-cooling racks so every time one rack gets breathed on we have to reset the status on it...whiny little things...but they won't adjust the threshold on them. Thank goodness I only go in there anymore to cool down or when we put in new boxes.
Innnnteresting! I used to work for the state - public pretenders - did I say that - no the public defenders. So you can imagine some of the people with whom I used to work!!! All public record - so no high security rating in the file room, but the entrance - heck ya - bullet proof glass. Once in a while suspicious packages landed at the entrance which were quickly put into a bomb proof closet till the bomb squad cleared them. Left there to go on to white collar crime....blah blah blah
Maybe you have my brother's research in there. He just completed a research project for the Am. Gov't, and more specifically for the military. He is a brain researcher and was asked to determine if and what brain damage was evident from IED's on soldiers who showed no physical injury; who were just beyond the zone where physical injury occurred, but within a distance that it is theorized brain damage can occur due to the impact of the sound/sonic waves. Sure enough, there was significant damage.
Which reminds me......a CNN interviewer asked an american sniper what he felt when shooting (killing, dusting...) a terrorist. To which the sniper replied: Recoil.
want my job hehe!!
That's why my job is secure. Between ASPCA monitoring and animal cruelty/safety laws, it would cost them more to hire a trained monkey than they're paying me.
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LOL oh boy!!
I had a job for Towle Silver back in the late 70s and I worked in the shipping Dept and they moved me to this Brand new Huge computer room. I lasted a month and told them I wanted to go back to the shipping dept lol. Good lord I think back about that one, here i am just learning this stuff with that said i still wouldn't change nothing i'm one that likes to have a little fun and the office environment just wasn't for me and moved on to another path, low and behold now i'm doing something a monkey can do hehe
I had a job for Towle Silver back in the late 70s and I worked in the shipping Dept and they moved me to this Brand new Huge computer room. I lasted a month and told them I wanted to go back to the shipping dept lol. Good lord I think back about that one, here i am just learning this stuff with that said i still wouldn't change nothing i'm one that likes to have a little fun and the office environment just wasn't for me and moved on to another path, low and behold now i'm doing something a monkey can do hehe
But would the monkey have as much fun as you do?
Only if Pop cut him in on the Grasshopper. Two hits and Pop and the monkey would be singing like a choir.
I lived with a chimp once - up in Quebec. I went there to live with a french family so I could immerse myself and learn french. They had two kids and one chimp. Le chimpanzé a sa propre chambre et portait des vêtements et de ses baisers senti comme des morsures. Il sentait mauvais aussi.(The chimp had its own bedroom and wore clothes and his kisses felt like bites. He smelled bad too.)
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