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Odd. My dictionary doesn't have 'redundant' at all. OTOH, for 'stack overflow' the entry reads 'see stack overflow'.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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And don't forget the old chestnut "Recursion. See recursion". Sorry, were we playing QI?
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Alarm starts ringing 
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Not at all. Look at it this way:
If they do nothing, and the warning turns out to be real - Burger King, the shift manager, and possibly the workers may be liable for injuries and deaths. The total compensation could add up to millions of dollars.
If they break all of the windows, the cost to Burger King is a few thousand dollars, and the workers get new jobs at the greasy spoon on the other side of town.
Given the (insanely) litigious nature of the U.S. citizenry, which would you choose?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: which would you choose?
Fill the building with gas, and open a "smoking section"? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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What would I do? If I was stupid enough to think pressure needed to be relieved?
I'd open the freaking door, not break the windows.
These are the people who think they deserve $15/hour.
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Really? High School science is more than adequate to spot that this is a nonsense! No Burger King shop is a sealed container. There will be extraction fans in operation, the door will be either permanently or regularly open and so on. And what is breaking windows going to achieve that simple opening them can't? And wouldn't your suspicions be raised by an instruction to break windows that wasn't at least accompanied by instructions to evacuate the premises? In any case a kitchen almost certainly has carbon monoxide alarms already installed. And might you not take a second to wonder how the caller knows what the situation is in your store if they're not actually present? Why would they need to phone you if they had people on the ground who could just tell you in person?
There's absolutely zero chance that the staff were thinking in terms of law suits. It was simply a case of "Oh my God we're going to die!" Flying glass is hardly a lesser evil when it comes to potential injury or even death even if it's only to the poor sod that's swinging the hammer.
It should be staff training 101 to check the credentials of any callers. The simple expedient of calling the fire service direct or even just checking the number from which the call was received would have averted the whole thing and possibly led to the perpetrators being traced.
Sorry, but there's no excuse. The perpetrators relied entirely upon the stupidity of the staff and were richly rewarded for their accurate assessment of their intellectual powers.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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You must have missed the joke icon (both on and in the message). The employees who were fooled are obviously complete idiots.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The real point, if you think about it, is that those of you who are carnivores allow these same people to prepare food that you eat.
Now that's food for thought.*
* Pressure is a latent affect of chili burgers, q.v.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I don't think it's yet been made compulsory for carnivores to eat at Burger King, has it?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Widen your horizon - wherever you are you eat mac-WendyBurger-king.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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You mean you didn't get that memo????
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Umm, it's located in "Coon Rapids"...
Need we say any more?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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And "charges" and "police" appears in every god damn news story!
Snow expected Tuesday, according to police, charges are not expected to be filed
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I prefer computers and cats
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Ok, it seems Mr. Bihy isn't posting it. Here's an easy one for today:
Old-fashioned mother's question (5)
I ain't got no signature.
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Pirate Guy wrote: Old-fashioned mother's question
Aren't kiddos excessively modern these days? 
Okay, let me get my coat, which I haven't got to get since Feb
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Eh ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Nope.
I ain't got no signature.
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With utter disgust at the wordplay ...
MUMSY
Y = question? Really? I'm still shuddering!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Like it or not, you should start to preparing for tomorrow...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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