Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Earthquake etiquette

Today, my first quake with other people in sight, 430pm, watching their reactions – most of us just paused at the terminal, little yelps from the corner of the office, my boss wandered past asking what was going on. No ducking, no panicking, no running, just standing or sitting still waiting for the rattling to finish. An odd nervous excitment after it was over. Then back to normal. 5.0 this time.


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    • neilh

      I still work as a techie in a tech company, they keep all the pretty girls away from us…the yelps originated from a small team of (mainly female) travel organisers who they couldn’t accomodate on the admin floor who now live in the far corner of office from me, in fact, I noticed they don’t actually let *anyone* sit near me any more, my bay of four desks only contains me and a couple of desks piled up with dead computer bits and boxes of random stuff.

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      • beermat

        apart from the ostricisation of the pretty girls, sounds ideal – no cow-orkers within hitting distance.
        Can’t you get a shipment of pretty girls in boxes to live in with the ‘random stuff’?

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    • neilh

      Yeah, pretty much, everything is designed to wobble around about that much, there was a little damage with the 5.5 earlier but only a wall falling over. I’d guess a 6.0 would cause some problems. Incidentally the Japanese measurement system is in terms of damage done not in terms of actual scientific measurement like the Richter scale. On their scale this was a 4 – things rattled and fell off shelves. 5 is minor structural damage, 6 is mayhem, or something.

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