Jobs! What do you do?

[Hexadecimal]

So, like, never EVER wonder how your day could possibly get worse if you're having a bad one. The universe will hear you and it will answer.

As a refresher, I am a Dietary Aide at a hospital.

Anyway, to zip right to the eventful stuff, I'd gotten through what should have been the most stressful part of the day, taken a lunch break, and was on the dirty end of the dish machine when suddenly I smell something odd.

Whenever someone needs to be taken from our hospital in a helicopter we can usually smell it since the landing pad is close by outside. It's a very distinct fuel-like smell, and at first I thought I was smelling that, but I realized it didn't match up.

The smell was getting stronger and odder, like a burnt electrical smell, so I went to investigate. By the dumbwaiter there is a bulb that turns on whenever it's in use. This bulb was flickering and actually smoking.

Of course this had to happen at a time when most of our staff is either on break or not around, so I'm the only one noticing this. At first it doesn't seem like it's too big of a deal, so I calmly head to the phone to call engineering. This is when the bulb breaks and there's suddenly flames.

First I'm like


But then I see a dude coming back from his break, point out the fire, and we're like

To the fire extinguisher!

We got the fire out and were like

We just saved saved this place! YEEEEAAAAH!

Of course then we call engineering out of fear it would act up again. Since we were heroes and stuff we told the others, even pointing out the scorch marks on the wall, but they were all like


...And that was my day, folks!