Well, I get a vest

[jethrien]

I've just gotten designated my area's evacuation warden. Such a title apparently comes with a spiffy day-glo orange vest.

I now know that in the case of a Virginia Tech style shooting, I officially allowed to lock myself with my coworkers in my boss' office and cower under his desk. Which was pretty much my unofficial plan anyway.

Comments

[jeths-mom.livejournal.com]

Well, see, as your mom, I'm not sure that in an emergency I'd like to imagine that you're going to your desk looking for said vest (which then makes you a bright orange target), and stopping in rest rooms along the way to the EXIT. EXIT being the key word here.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I don't have to come back to the office if I'm not in the office already. If I'm in the office, then the bathrooms and everyone else are on my way out. I grab people as I go, shove them out the door, and am out the building about as fast as I would be if I wasn't warden.

Also, I think the chances of our particular office catching fire disastrously are relatively low.