My story is back in my College days, I worked for a Political Science Professor who also doubled at the manager for the Business Computing Center. He smoked a pipe and your description about your boss is very much like mine, so his ash tray was filled with spent match sticks, not much ash, because he always tapped out his ashes with the heel of his boot, drove everyone CRAZY, but he was easy to track! His desk was also always pilled with papers.
One day I walked into the office, just after he left to go to class, but to talk to his assistant and noticed stronger burning smell than usual. His assistant and I both looked into his office to notice his ash tray on fire as well as some his papers starting to burn around the edges, so a quick grab of the fire extinguisher and I put the fire out. His assistant gave him a long and stern talking too, he did clean up his act after that and everyone that worked in the area got some fire extinguisher training by the local Fire Department! Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer III UF Information Technology 720 Bld. 3rd Floor, #9 P.O. Box 112050 Gainesville, FL. 32611 (e) ajn...@ufl.edu (p) (352) 273-1298 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 8:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FW: Where's the fire? | Computerworld Shark Tank Mark Regan wrote: I have corrected the URL by joining the 2 lines into 1. >https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.computerworld. >com_article_3333601_data-2Dcenter_wheres-2Dthe-2Dfire.html&d=DwIFaQ&c=p >ZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM&r=0Ef64GJS77DVfhr5GGKZeQ&m=8 >-1AIH7ny9wykE2QX3I3hS5bKY4-Ke0eApy78s--s_8&s=1eyyGc21cnJCa9lTlwa9AZBsaa >O7NcNAPYOSBnpAkDo&e= Ouch, ouch, ouch, what a nasty fired up event. So, you get fired because there were no fire? ;-) About smoke - One of my previous bosses (during 1990) was a heavy smoker who smoked cigars, pipe and cigaretes. So about 20 - 40+ cigs per day. His ashtray was always full with smoked debris lying around the ashtray and smoke particles everywher on the table, floor, chair, his clothes, etc.... I hated everytime I had to go to his table, but he was my direct boss ... He was sitting in a corner in a large (about 25 by 25 meters) open plan office with aircondit. Anyways, I just look over to the corner, if there is smoke, then he is in office. No smoke, he is ill at home. Seriously. At that time there was a small fire in our building, but luckily one of the patrolling guards grabbed an extinguisher and smoked out the fire. It was a dustbin fire where someone threw away a still burning cigarette stump. Today, if you want to smoke - you do that outside. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
