If this had been an actual emergency
We just had a mass mock evacuation of our building, and I was not impressed.
See, I think it would be a good idea to somehow alert people in the building to the fact that we’re having an evacuation.
It’s a little less inspiring, I’ve discovered, to have somebody else — not even in the building — ask me while we’re on a conference call if there’s an evacuation going on. (He’d heard the news from somebody else via IM.)
When my response, following a look around at our still completely-populated floor, is “I dunno,” something is not working quite right.
It was essentially a 15-minute exercise in congregating in one of our parking lots, then racing everyone else for the slow-ass elevator to take us back to our respective floors.
Funny….we had a fire drill last Wednesday, right after we had started a big class in the labs. Everyone walk outside…..then I saw someone with a clipboard who said we had to congregate out in the back by the FLC. I later learned that all departments have a clipboard with procedures and stuff….where was ours? Turned back in for corrections. As I was the one “in charge” (meaning no other managers around), I felt like an ass.