yesterday i got a chord to an intercom system stuck down the lift shaft at work,getting the lift stuck and preventing the lift door from opening! it started out as a pretty genius idea for communicating with whoever is downstairs and it quickly escalated to a very high stress nightmare! not only was there a group of men drinking at the bar directly in front of the lift-watching my every move-but there where customers to be served and toasties to be made!!
after the conclusion that the lift doors could not be opened by sheer force,or even the FORCE the depression kicked in! knowing i would have to call a maintenance man in the first 10 days as manager was just too much!! how much would that cost? my world was crashing down,how many other things had gone wrong since i "took over"?the CCTV broke and we got a £70 call out charge for them to tell me the monitor was broken,the Internet is down AGAIN,the retractable awning wont extend out.....the beer cooler isn't cooling? the draught soda wasn't bubbly?!!!
why me i thought? I'm not cut out for this!!! i will surely end up a prescription drug addict from this job!!!
but i held tight and mustered up the confidence that i could figure something out and with a little tip from one of the guys that's been there about as long as the lift its self(and a screwdriver) i took apart the control panel on both the top and bottom floor doors of the lift!
i tried several different things and poked screwdrivers into a few different shaped holes to try and release something...finally i found a kind of spring like thing that totally released the door!!! i then was in the lift!! i quickly identified the problem,the inner doors had opened preventing the lift from moving further! with the help of an extra long handled feather duster and a huge torch(flash light) i was able to get the chord out,keep the intercom in the lift and close the doors, then sending the lift back up!!!
it was solved,the suspense was over!!!! i did it!!!! i had beaten my job,yet again!! maybe i could do it after all!!!??
i took this opportunity to rescue 6 kitchen knives and one cutting board,countless tea spoons,a mini disk recorder,a newspaper and a bag of shrimp scampi fried snacks from the bottom of the lift shaft!!!!
it was on to the next crisis for me!! in my head there was applause and champagne bursts,confetti and balloons!!! in reality there was my husband looking proud and knowing all along that i could do it,which is way better than all those other things!!
in short,i won again!
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