OT:I've had a really Sh*tty Day

kronckew

kronckew

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For those of you who think they have had a sh1tty day,

this morning when i got to work, there was a smell in the ops room, we were told there was a blocked raw sewage (including lotsa fragrant fecal matter) drain outside the window & the smell was coming in the a/c air intakes. they called out the rotorooter guy who showed up about 5 hrs later, most people had gone home because of the smell already (i can't as i am the duty person).

well the guy shows up, starts up his pressure thingy & shoves it it the drain, us watching from the window about 10ft away, all of a sudden there is a bang behind us and a roaring noise. he'd managed to blow out a cap on a drainpipe in the raised computer flooring we were standing on & flooded under it with raw sewage about an inch deep! there was an open grilled floor vent about a foot from the sh*t fountain, if it were a bit closer we would all have been sprayed. if we thought the smell was bad before, it's a 1000 times worse now.

we've evacuated & set up in some spare cubicals on the other side of the building, i'm on my company laptop now typing this so we're at about 90% efficiency. they've arranged for a plumber to re-cap the blown drain & to get the under-floor area decontaminated tomorrow, so we'll have a fun day. luckily i've got a week off after tomorrow, so i hope it will be back to it's normal not quite so fragrant state for my return.

so, y'all, how's your day been?
 
we had the city lines back up one time here, we are sitting is a low area, invaded the whole building with over flowing toliets....... yeap it was
loads of fun......... :barf: ( pun intended)
 
I cut my left index finger with a beet knife this morning. I knew better, but did it anyway. The large khuks work good as bark strippers, but the lighter machette- like beet knife sailed forth and found prime beef.



munk
 
Ad Astra said:
Luckily, smells don't travel the internet...

all of a sudden there is a bang behind us and a roaring noise.

The plumber sounds like an Insurgent.

Would you call him a sewage-side bomber?

Ad Astra
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LMFRRAO!!!! Rep points fer you!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Edit:
Just in case there's a misunderstanding of what LMFRRAO =
It is for "Laughing My FAT Royal Red Ass Off.:p ;) :D
 
I passed the points on to kronckew... poor guy- what a scene- yuck.

Laughter isn't the best medicine- MEDICINE is the best medicine- but laughing at disaster helps me.

It has an unfortunate side-effect though; people think I'm nuts.


Ad Astra :confused: :footinmou :p ;)
 
Ad Astra said:
I passed the points on to kronckew... poor guy- what a scene- yuck.

Ad Astra :confused: :footinmou :p ;)
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I just kicked kronckew up to buck teef.:D ;)
 
I don't do anything that has to do with poop. Hell, if the toliets get clogged at the office it's deligated to the help to clean up. If the help isn't working that day, then rotorooter is called. 100 bucks well spent IMHO. Dog poop just about makes me toss my cookies. Good God, i can still smell the flash baked dog droppings cooking in the August sun of the back yards that i worked in building above ground poolsI can handle blood, guts, and the noxious chlorine smells that I work in day in and day out, but when it comes to poop or puke :barf: no thanks. I think i'm going to be pretty much useless for the first two years of childrens' lives.
Hope your day gets a WHOLE lot better, man.

Jake
 
I once did CRM (archaeological) work in the back yard of a beach-area cottage. The previous owner had dogs ... lots of dogs. The first foot-and-a-half of "soil" we excavated was dog poop.
Bleah...
 
Ad Astra said:
The plumber sounds like an Insurgent.

Would you call him a sewage-side bomber?

Ad Astra
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I checked, and his Unitarian Jihad name is Brother Logging Chain of Patience



:D
 
"You must spread some reputation points around before giving it to kronckew again." Don't worry Kronck, someday you'll be able to look back on this and laugh. It may not be any day soon, but someday. ;)

Bob
 
Prediction. The smell WILL go away, but it will never be funny. :(

[I had a lovely job for two weeks one summer -- cleaning out apartments in low-rent complexes. I should have known what was ahead when I has issued my dencon suit, with elastic cuffs x 4 and elastic hood -- and a gasmask and shovel. I got to see the results of trying to flush disposable diapers down toilets and keeping pets hidden indoors for months ("No Pets Allowed"). Pay was good, but I could not stand the stink. Week after I quit, my buddy's crew found a dead body under a bed. Doesn't seem funny even now, and many years have passed.]
 
thanks for the commiserations y'all, worst bit was when i got home a little while ago & blew my nose & the tissue came out all brown - i'm running the bath now & may soak in bleach for an hour or two....:barf:

never thought working with computers would be so much fun!

it'll probably be like when my son got sprayed by a skunk back home in alabama, took us ages to get the smell out of him, and for weeks afterwards i'd swear i could still smell it. that & the day he stuck his belly-button together with bubblegum he will never live down. he's 35 now.....
 
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