Aquarium Life
Monday, November 13, 2006
Ander ma's het snaakse kinders
Well I must apologize to my faithful readers for not updating as often as I would like. It is extremely busy and with the onset of winter comes the flu and his big friend the cold so it has been busy.
This week was quite quiet up to Thursday when everything just seemed to go wrong and happen at once. We had an evacuation just as the majority of the staff went on lunch ... Murphy's law ... but we could handle it we had done it before but miscommunication plus caused a lot of confusion on which evacuation procedure to use. We evacuate often actually since County Hall wherein which the aquarium lays is quite a big building and the Aquarium is located right in the middle of it so if a fire alarm goes off anywhere in the building the Aquarium gets evacuated. This happened at about three.
I was at info point around four when a big family group came in marched straight at me and demanded some maps ... ok? no harm no foul ... I thought. Now when I say a big family group I mean Grandma in the wheelchair with grandpa along with more sets of grandparents... parents about three sets, aunts uncles assorted teenagers children, even a mom with a stroller.
Now I finish at half past four but usually stick around until the end of the day. So I was in the staff room when the call came from Lizzy (at the ray pool) for security to please come down as there are visitors acting inappropriately. So what happened was that this big group had moved down stairs to the ray pool then started spitting in the pool and smacking the animals ... as Lizzy said luckily I wasn't there I would have had a heart attack. So the duty manager asked if someone could please go to the rainforest's section as that is the only other place downstairs where there are open tanks and poisonous fish not to mention Terrapins (freshwater turtles) that can bite. So I went downstairs to keep Christy company and on my way down the stairs the tank lights started going out.
So now we have a big group ... open tanks ... and no lights in the tanks. So people start getting angry at us its not yet six why have we switched off the lights? What a nightmare ... luckily we got the big group out as soon as possible, but then we had people wanting to go back and see previous tanks when the lights where back on ... then believe it or not we had a crazy woman who after being in the aquarium for two hours wanted a refund because her daughter fell asleep and they actually came for her ... huh?
Like the title says other mothers have funny children.
More l8r this week
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This week was quite quiet up to Thursday when everything just seemed to go wrong and happen at once. We had an evacuation just as the majority of the staff went on lunch ... Murphy's law ... but we could handle it we had done it before but miscommunication plus caused a lot of confusion on which evacuation procedure to use. We evacuate often actually since County Hall wherein which the aquarium lays is quite a big building and the Aquarium is located right in the middle of it so if a fire alarm goes off anywhere in the building the Aquarium gets evacuated. This happened at about three.
I was at info point around four when a big family group came in marched straight at me and demanded some maps ... ok? no harm no foul ... I thought. Now when I say a big family group I mean Grandma in the wheelchair with grandpa along with more sets of grandparents... parents about three sets, aunts uncles assorted teenagers children, even a mom with a stroller.
Now I finish at half past four but usually stick around until the end of the day. So I was in the staff room when the call came from Lizzy (at the ray pool) for security to please come down as there are visitors acting inappropriately. So what happened was that this big group had moved down stairs to the ray pool then started spitting in the pool and smacking the animals ... as Lizzy said luckily I wasn't there I would have had a heart attack. So the duty manager asked if someone could please go to the rainforest's section as that is the only other place downstairs where there are open tanks and poisonous fish not to mention Terrapins (freshwater turtles) that can bite. So I went downstairs to keep Christy company and on my way down the stairs the tank lights started going out.
So now we have a big group ... open tanks ... and no lights in the tanks. So people start getting angry at us its not yet six why have we switched off the lights? What a nightmare ... luckily we got the big group out as soon as possible, but then we had people wanting to go back and see previous tanks when the lights where back on ... then believe it or not we had a crazy woman who after being in the aquarium for two hours wanted a refund because her daughter fell asleep and they actually came for her ... huh?
Like the title says other mothers have funny children.
More l8r this week
P
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