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SIGNAL LOST
REMOTE DISCONNECT
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There is only one correct way to close a business letter, which has served most learned men of letters since the days of the quill pen:-
I remain your most obedient servant
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Sounds about right to me.[^] 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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How disappointing.
I thought your link would be to images of some "professional" women that grace the evenings . . .
| "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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Not in the Lounge, Shirley?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Er . . . um . . . uh . . .
I was referring to woman who manage the server room on night shift.
Yeah, yeah - that's what I meant.
| "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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In one smal business, breastfeeding woman had moved into server room. She cried at HR when IT saw her pumping. She thought their fault for going to their server room. 
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The real point seems lost.
Why the elephant must a woman go anywhere special to feed her infant as it was meant to be fed?
If one is religious - then she is doing as G-d willed.
If one is atheistic - then she is doing what is natural.
The loving bond between mother and child at these moments is incredibly beautiful.
Why must she hide herself, even with a mechanical pump? What shameful thing is she hiding? Why would she think she needs to hide herself?
A world where it's more acceptable to seem people with their limbs partially blown off in a hospital than to see a woman giving birth in the same place.
Much of humankind needs their head examined.
| "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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W∴ Balboos wrote: If one is religious - then she is doing as G-d willed.
You don't really get this theology lark, do you?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Hopefully they told her that food or drink wasn't allowed in the server room?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And that clarity of thought is why you have over 1.5 million CP points and I've not even reached 50 thousand!
| "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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Obviously she should have gone to the lunch room/kitchen/whichever facility they have in the company for eating lunch.
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Why did I not think of that?
I must be getting old.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As pointed out by Griff, this is the Lounge, not the Troll Pit.[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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.. isn't in the Burger King[^] handbook, apparently.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I just checked, and it's not in my dictionary either. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My dictionary only has: "See redundant" for redundant.
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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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