Another day, another fire drill. Sigh.

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Just think of how well prepared you will be in the event of a fire

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Same 😔

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Use water. If it’s a battery on fire, run

I’m getting so numb to those artificial emergency drills that if shit will hit the fan for real one day I’ll get seriously burned.

Haha! It went from a redesign the entire project to a rebuild a slide solution. And then the specific item in question was left as-is on the slide too. What a waste of time.

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That’s why I left consulting 🤪

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