For Your Safety:

[aquabean]

When opening a full filing cabinet, please keep the following in mind.

1) Don't leave the bottom drawer open.
2) Should you disregard #1, do not then open the next drawer up and leave that open as well.
3) If both #'s 2 and 3 are ignored do not then open the uppermost of the four drawers.
4) Persons who ignore all three previous items should expect the weight of the filing cabinet to shift forward dangerously, opening the one drawer still remaining closed.
5) Having reached #5 it is impossible to avoid a several minute struggle against both, being crushed under several hundred pounds of metal and files and the mess that would result should one manage to escape death by filing cabinet.
6) Righting this situation through sheer strength and appropriate application of elbows and knees to drawer joints is possible, however it will result in several bruises, including one on the palm of one's hand.


This PSA brought to you today by, Concerned Office Workers who Hate Their Job*.


*Not really. I just hate filing. Also, being crushed was not on my list of things to do today, so making it out alive is a good thing. Gotta go back in. I'm tough. I'll make it. Probably.

Comments

[permetaform]

::wince::

ps. what's happening with U_A again?

[wildelamassu.livejournal.com]

Just one more midterm and I'm on that call-out post. *sheepish*

(Rune, if you're killed by a filing cabinet, I'm going to build you a large memorial shrine in my unemployed tent city.)

[permetaform]

man, ::hugs:: no worries, we've all been insanely busy =D

[runefallstar.livejournal.com]

What more could a girl ask for that to be immortalized in cardboard...oh! Could you make my memorial out of rocks arranged in the shape of a giant Monkey? Dude, that would be so sweet! Heheheh.

[nightfallrising.livejournal.com]

...Did she *ever* email you?
(pokes Rune. That's right. Right in the palm. <3 )

[permetaform]

...I think we've all been insanely busy? =D

[runefallstar.livejournal.com]

*hides* I emailed, I emailed. *small voice* Sorry it took so long.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

This is, I suspect, one of the reasons we have the sorts of filing cabinets in which you can only open one drawer at a time. The others lock in place until you close it again.

*wince* Sorry to hear about the bruises, hon. At least you made it out alive.

[runefallstar.livejournal.com]

I think there would some kind of terrible poetic justice in my being crushed in the file room. I'm not sure what it would be exactly, but there would be some.

[snowyheart.livejournal.com]

Filing major sucks. ;\ I did the exact same thing you just described... and now the drawers won't stay closed, and we had to tape the whole filing cabinet up with packing tape.

They are evil!

[runefallstar.livejournal.com]

They are! They're evil! *shakes fist at filing cabinets all over the world*

[karotsamused.livejournal.com]

o.O; Work At Your Own Risk?
Hope you survive this and the rest of your days XP Toppling file cabinets = skeery! I had it happen once. Nearly broke me leg.

[runefallstar.livejournal.com]

Well, I caught most of the brunt on my arms -- and I do mean caught. I amaze even myself with my own toughness sometimes. The getting it all back upright was more impressive, but still XD

[new-kate.livejournal.com]

Wow. Ouch.
*pets carefully*
Oi, isn't this, like, injury at the workplace? Shouldn't they pay you buckets of money in compensation now? 'cause more manga!

That has totally happened to me!

[madpinkflamingo.livejournal.com]

Only with a much smaller filing cabinet. Hey! I file too, you are not alone my friend.