Water cooler at certain work places are the gossip point of the offices. Not so at my work place, even though when it's placed along a busy common corridor.
However, today as I was getting off work, I passed by the water cooler and saw it had became a gathering point, of sorts.
The water cooler is faulty and the Engineering Department had send some people to fix it. Guess how many there were?
Six.
One electrical engineer, one electrical senior technician, one senior Ops technician, one senior kitchen equipment technician and two junior service technicians.
Mind you, they're not gathering there to chit chat while one of their colleagues worked. All of them are actually working on fixing the water cooler.
I would suppose the work was allocated like this:
Electrical Engineer: Oversee the entire repair operation to ensure he doesn't miss out on any gossip
Senior Electrical Technician: To switch off and unplug the water cooler. To plug in and switch on the water cooler. Afterall, who else except the Electrical Engineer (can't possibly ask him to do the dirty work) has the expertise to deal with electrical stuff.
Senior Ops Technician: Somebody from Ops has to be there to show face, so that the other sections don't bask in all the glory of repairing the all important water cooler. Help dismantle the cover as well.
Senior Kitchen Equipment Technician: To repair the leak.
Junior Service Technicians 1: To pass the screwdrivers, hold the screws and nuts.
Junior Service Technicians 2: To test the water after fixing to ensure the seniors don't connect the sewage tube instead of the portable water tube to the machine.
Now, I'll be very worried if something else bigger happened. Like if a pipe in the pump room burst. The whole Engineering department will probably be down there from the director to the engineers, technicians to the carpeters. Heck, the telephone coordinator probably be there as well just so she'll have something to yak about over lunch.
Maybe I'll even be needed. Well, I can do something useful, like sticking my butt onto the hole to stem the flow first while the Engineering department holds their symposium.
posted by Cylee at
6:32 pm I