10-30-2018, 10:33 PM
So, pull into work at 7:30, still pissed that I lost my fantasy matchup by .2 points...park the truck, walk towards the building, and in the first parking spot is a St Petersburg police SUV, for the K9 unit...my first thought is drugs as there is a shipping and receiving area on the ground floor...
Didn't think too much about it as I started walking up to the third floor, get to our suite, swipe my access card...and sitting at the end of the row next to mine is a cop...I walk passed him, put my hands up and say "I didn't do it"...cop laughs, I get to my desk, fire up the laptop hoping for a clue as to wtf is going on...
Find an email, sent a little after 9pm the night before from the head of HR...apparently an individual who had been fired last week had made some threats...no details on the threats, but apparently serious enough to warrant having a cop in our suite...so at this point I don't know if someone is going to barge in with an AK, if there's pipebombs in the office/building/campus or what...
As I'm the first one from IT in the office, I send out a group text to my coworkers letting them know that "don't be alarmed when you come in and you see a cop sitting in our row, there was an issue with a dismissed employee, yada, yada" ...then I make a joke that I'm disappointed that there is only a cop and no dog with him since he was in the K9 unit vehicle...
So I ask the cop if he needs a coffee or anything from the vending machines, which he politely declines...get to my desk, start to work on a Visio I started the day before...and I'm like "what was the point of sending out an email and 9pm when only a dozen or so people even have laptops"...so, I contact the head of HR and ask if this situation didn't warrant activation of our call tree?...so a couple hours to by, no reply...after lunch I am walking passed her office and she calls me in..." thanks for your suggestion, but we didn't feel the situation called for it"...
So, we've got a situation worthy of calling the police, just a few days after a gunman walks into and shoots up a synagogue, which was preceded by a nut mailing out pipebombs all over the freaking country, but the person in charge of HR doesn't think it's worthy of a heads up, you might be collateral damage today...maybe work from home if you'd feel safer there...Dirty Harry was right...
Didn't think too much about it as I started walking up to the third floor, get to our suite, swipe my access card...and sitting at the end of the row next to mine is a cop...I walk passed him, put my hands up and say "I didn't do it"...cop laughs, I get to my desk, fire up the laptop hoping for a clue as to wtf is going on...
Find an email, sent a little after 9pm the night before from the head of HR...apparently an individual who had been fired last week had made some threats...no details on the threats, but apparently serious enough to warrant having a cop in our suite...so at this point I don't know if someone is going to barge in with an AK, if there's pipebombs in the office/building/campus or what...
As I'm the first one from IT in the office, I send out a group text to my coworkers letting them know that "don't be alarmed when you come in and you see a cop sitting in our row, there was an issue with a dismissed employee, yada, yada" ...then I make a joke that I'm disappointed that there is only a cop and no dog with him since he was in the K9 unit vehicle...
So I ask the cop if he needs a coffee or anything from the vending machines, which he politely declines...get to my desk, start to work on a Visio I started the day before...and I'm like "what was the point of sending out an email and 9pm when only a dozen or so people even have laptops"...so, I contact the head of HR and ask if this situation didn't warrant activation of our call tree?...so a couple hours to by, no reply...after lunch I am walking passed her office and she calls me in..." thanks for your suggestion, but we didn't feel the situation called for it"...
So, we've got a situation worthy of calling the police, just a few days after a gunman walks into and shoots up a synagogue, which was preceded by a nut mailing out pipebombs all over the freaking country, but the person in charge of HR doesn't think it's worthy of a heads up, you might be collateral damage today...maybe work from home if you'd feel safer there...Dirty Harry was right...
