Friday, December 15, 2006

Mr. Crane

This---is a crane.
And I......am having problems with a crane.
I wish it was this kinda crane I was having problems with!
Alas and alack--it is not.
It's a crane of the industrial type.

It's a crane that's parked in the parking lot at work while they're installing a new cell phone tower.
We have to drive around the construction going on.
We have minimal parking as a result of the construction.
We have noise and more noise and MORE NOISE because of the construction going on.

And I have a major problem with Mr. Crane.
Mr. Crane hoists large objects into the air.
VERY large objects.
Mr. Crane is going to be in use for the next 30-45 days. (I know cuz I asked.)
Mr. Crane hoists objects right past my internet provider's dish--ya know the dish that sends the signal to my wireless work connection for all my staff.......and me...........

Mr. Crane is in big BIG trouble for doing that.

Mr. Crane is the reason I walked into work today and discovered five staff sitting at the reception area doing crosswords puzzles.
Cuz none of those five people could get a lick of work done....cuz Mr. Crane kept creating 'blips' in the service....which made my 'safeguard' unit kick in and shut down the signal...which made the whole WORK in progress--stop progressing.
G'head.......ask if *I* got my work done today!!
My secretary discovered I'm not fond of Mr. Crane.......she suggested I take a walk around the building BEFORE I talked with the construction folks.

HA......

And now---I'm going to research to make sure Mr. Crane is not an endangered species.
That'd be the responsible thing to do BEFORE I go blow him up, right?

2 comments:

Sam said...

ooo been there and got the tshirt. 3 years of constant building work where I graft for a living have made me very anti heavy duty machinery. Go get it!

I, Like The View said...

I have a thing about cranes

but it would be whooping cranes, not your kind

up to 45 days, eh? must be one helluva tower. . .