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I thought I had seen it all....
Jun. 2nd, 2012 07:11 pmIn the way of really bizzare designs in buildings. But this one was a stumper.
I was at the mall friday, and when I was walking out of the building, I see one of the mall maintainance guys with a 20 foot long pole. Okay, I says to myself. Changing a burnt out bulb with one of those suction cup on a stick things. Then I get a little closer, and I see he isn't poking at a light fixture. But at an electrical plate mounted on the ceiling. I look closer, this having piqued my curiosity. Attached to the end of the pole, that the guy is poking at the ceiling, is a key ring, with one of the keys sticking up, and he is trying to insert the key into one of those smoke detector lockout key switches you see in some fire detection systems. But the thing is installed in the ceiling of a corridor, 15 or 20 feet up in the air, right in the center of the corridor. Adding insult to injury, he isn't sure which key it is, and he has to lower the pole back down, switch to another key, and repeat. All the while someone is asking him over his radio if he has done it yet.
Couldn't they afford the extra 50 feet of cable needed to put this switch down at people height? Architects, They design great buildings, then do dumb things like this. Amazing.
I was at the mall friday, and when I was walking out of the building, I see one of the mall maintainance guys with a 20 foot long pole. Okay, I says to myself. Changing a burnt out bulb with one of those suction cup on a stick things. Then I get a little closer, and I see he isn't poking at a light fixture. But at an electrical plate mounted on the ceiling. I look closer, this having piqued my curiosity. Attached to the end of the pole, that the guy is poking at the ceiling, is a key ring, with one of the keys sticking up, and he is trying to insert the key into one of those smoke detector lockout key switches you see in some fire detection systems. But the thing is installed in the ceiling of a corridor, 15 or 20 feet up in the air, right in the center of the corridor. Adding insult to injury, he isn't sure which key it is, and he has to lower the pole back down, switch to another key, and repeat. All the while someone is asking him over his radio if he has done it yet.
Couldn't they afford the extra 50 feet of cable needed to put this switch down at people height? Architects, They design great buildings, then do dumb things like this. Amazing.
