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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Marks DTM Calib on 22 June 2007, 10:39:43
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Currently stuck in a conference room as our office has been sealed.....
I work on the sixth floor of an old office block and this week we had a water leak in the roof.....nothing to unusual but, they found asbestos all round it!
So the whole of the sixth floor is shut!
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Blimey! I bet the cat's well and truly amongst the pigeons there!
Still, it's not to be messed with. An ex-colleague of my Father is very ill at the moment due, apparently, to exposure to asbestos, probably circa 40 years ago. He wasn't conscious of exposing himself to anything more hazardous than a hot soldering iron during his career.
Kevin
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Not to big a problem when the asbestos is wet, only when it is dry that it causes nasties. :y
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You'll have the guys in "spacesuits" in to strip it all out soon then....
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I suggest you go home. Like I am :P
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I suggest you go home. Like I am :P
You're always at home ;)
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Still here, there is a guy in a suit looking at it.......there going to seal the affected area and clean it all up at the weekend......thing is the route cause, the leaking roof, hasn't been fixed or even looked at yet!
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Still here, there is a guy in a suit looking at it.......there going to seal the affected area and clean it all up at the weekend......thing is the route cause, the leaking roof, hasn't been fixed or even looked at yet!
Typical telecommunications company way of doing things ;D
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Still here, there is a guy in a suit looking at it.......there going to seal the affected area and clean it all up at the weekend......thing is the route cause, the leaking roof, hasn't been fixed or even looked at yet!
Typical telecommunications company way of doing things ;D
Its sub contracted to Johnson Controls.....
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is this the old GPT do I recall?
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must feel like one of those days whereby way back when at school and you get a half day cos the heating breaks etc ;D
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must feel like one of those days whereby way back when at school and you get a half day cos the heating breaks etc ;D
Never happened at my school - you were just allowed to wear coat in classroom :(
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Never happened at my school - you were just allowed to wear coat in classroom
Me too. These days they announce the schools will close the day before, based on a slightly chilly weather forecast, just in case the boiler breaks!
Kevin
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Still here, there is a guy in a suit looking at it.......there going to seal the affected area and clean it all up at the weekend......thing is the route cause, the leaking roof, hasn't been fixed or even looked at yet!
Typical telecommunications company way of doing things ;D
Its sub contracted to Johnson Controls.....
Mark, do you work for the same people as me???? Home Hub n stuff!!!!
DC
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is this the old GPT do I recall?
It certainly is.....
and no its not the Home Hub lot.....we design the kit, we dont try to operate it ;)
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You might be there a while then.....the theatre in Swindon was closed down bout oct time last year coz they found a bit of asbestos......then found a bit more.....then a bit more......still hasnt reopened!!
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Never happened at my school - you were just allowed to wear coat in classroom :(
You must have been one of the rich kids!! At least you had a coat :'( :'( :'(
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My school is a clasp type 4B building. It's made from asbestos ;D We have contractors in every holiday, removing a bit more. There wont be any school left soon :o
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Twas my desk it all collapsed onto.
I reported the problem on Wednesday morning but nobody had appeared by 10:00 so started to clean up and move to a spare desk cos everything was soaking. Then noticed some of the fireproofing around a steel beam was missing....60's building so I was concerned about asbestos and raised it with the site management " no problem, there is no asbestos within the office"
2'oclock-ish the facilities manager appears and i ask again.." no asbestos..." But says I, that is part of the fire proofing and given the age of the building I am concerned...so she goes away and re-appears the following day with two suits who take a look, mutter to each other about something being exposed and hurry off.
7pm last night a guy arrives to take samples, has a look and says we must leave the office. He then reported to the HSE and they said the office had to be sealed untill the results of the lab test came through.
From 6am today there were notices saying the floor was shut and men in bunny suits and masks appeared at 3 ish. Apparantly it is brown asbestos but we have yet to be told by our management, one manager even told his staff they could go in to collect personal items :o :o :o (I dont think he had been briefed as to what was found)
Im rather pi**ed off that I was sat under this lot for two days while various managers denied there was a problem. Also feel rather nervous that I will be held responsible for 30+ people being stopped from working normally.
I cant believe that they have decontamination people working all w/e when they have yet to get anyone up onto the roof to fix the leak that brought the ceiling down in the first place.
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is this the old GPT do I recall?
It certainly is.....
and no its not the Home Hub lot.....we design the kit, we dont try to operate it ;)
Got that, TRY, the amount of people I meet who TRY to operate it is amazing.... Even we, engineers..
Had a lady today who said it was *ritish *elecoms fault because XP service pack 2 wasn't installed on her PC.... hence the ADSL software wouldn't go on....
DC
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is this the old GPT do I recall?
It certainly is.....
and no its not the Home Hub lot.....we design the kit, we don't try to operate it ;)
Got that, TRY, the amount of people I meet who TRY to operate it is amazing.... Even we, engineers..
Had a lady today who said it was *ritish *elecoms fault because XP service pack 2 wasn't installed on her PC.... hence the ADSL software wouldn't go on....
DC
You think thats bad....try dealing with some of the operators...
There is a certain customer who has some OMS1600 kit installed in the network (which is bloody good stuff) who had a software unavailable alarm so they went into the bank status and switched banks to a newer version....which is basically an in-formal upgrade (there are specific procedures to follow to avoid traffic loss which on a 10G line interface can be substantial)......this resulted in an old connection database being loaded and a shed load of traffic being lost....
To make matters worse they then swapped the memory cards over which resulted in a decommissioned shelf....i.e. no traffic at all!
And these are the people who should know what they are doing......still, it would only affect most of the UK's customer help lines given the location of this node in their network...nt wanting to give away which county it was in!