ARGH! Awoken by the Alarm Company

[BroadwayBrat]

I don't know if anyone else here is the number one person on your company's alarm phone tree, but let me tell you, I am sick of it. I live only a block away from my job, and I am the first person to get called, and if I don't answer my home phone (its in the living room) then they call my cell phone, which is charging nightly by my bed - so either way, I am up. Well this morning at bloody 6:30 AM, I get that fateful phone call, "hi, this is the Security people and we are calling regarding the alarm being set off at your place of employment, please respond as the police have been dispatched." ARGH!! I had just gotten to sleep after my friend had her baby at 4:45 am, so needless to say I was MAD!! So I wen't over to work and it was only the cleaning lady! She put the code in wrong so it set off the silent alarm. So I started my day today with a phone call, a false alarm and a fine from the police department for responding to a false alarm! GRRRR!!!!! Sorry, I had to vent, it just gets annoying because this happens A LOT! We have photographs in the lobby of the building that are just double sticked taped up and they fall and set off the motion sensor, well when I approached my boss about that, she just said to add more tape. Grrr....well enough...sorry...

Hope you all have had a better day!

:rant:

[trotsky]

1. Hey, I'm in the same boat!

I am also first to be called, home then cell.

Fortunately our new system is keycard-based, so you don't have to arm/disarm it. No more screwups by the cleaning staff.

Unfortunately their vacuums can set off the glass-break sensors, so I have had a few false alarms from that. But the security folks adjusted the system so that the glass-breaks arm later than the rest of the system, thus the cleaning folks are done with their vacuuming and voila - no more false alarms! Haven't had one in half a year at least.

Oh and I have the option of requesting or canceling a police dispatch when they call, so given the timing of certain false alarms I could avoid getting dinged by the police for that same type of fee.

[BroadwayBrat]

2. I wish we could switch to that kind of system...

but the turnover in this theatre is so great, we would never get the cards back, it could just be a mess....

Usually I can get here before the cops are dispatched, but this time I was not so lucky...blah

[trotsky]

4. Just so you know, the cards are cheap.

And if someone doesn't turn one in, you just deactivate it in the system. 10 seconds of work.

Plus then you don't have to worry about ex-employees still knowing what your alarm code is, so you end up being more secure!

Depending on how many access points you have to secure, it may not be a huge investment. Worth bringing up at least?

[BroadwayBrat]

8. Very true!

I will talk to the boss bout that...

[TK421]

3. Hope your day gets better....just sit down with some coffee

:hi:

[BroadwayBrat]

6. 3 cups strong now...

:donut:

[Dr.Phool]

5. Start turning off the cell phone.

[BroadwayBrat]

7. I wish I could...

but if I were to do that....I would get introuble by the boss...she is next on the list...