i got locked in an office building today (getting locked in offices -c/d)

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i worked late, and the people with keys left earlier, not knowing i was still there.

when i realised what had happened, i became clammy and frustrated.

i then contemplated climbing out a window, but i decided my plight wasn't serious enough to risk life and limb.

i rang the police, and a keyholder was alerted to the situation.

i feel embarassed now...has this ever happened to you?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

looking at the thread title I thought "oh, pretty funny" then I opened it and saw it was you kilian and thought "oh, sucks". this has never happened to me thankfully but my dad was locked in a pub toilet once. drunk. alone. he set of the alarm and was escorted from the premises by the police. eventually.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

What kind of place do you work at, kilian? How does one get locked into their office?

Now, I've been locked outside my office.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

My uncle got locked in a public toilet once. He just had to yell for help till someone heard him :)

― I'm playing it cool but it's terribly cruel / Kate (papa november), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

That's strange. I've never been in an office building where the doors could be locked from the inside. Generally the handle inside still turns even when the door is locked. In fact I'm pretty sure that's required by law for fire safety reasons.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

kilian lives in "ireland"

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Well, I figured that but it's still strange that you can be locked inside of a building with no way out.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

it is strange...

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

the doors in this office are un-openable inside and out, once locked. the folks working there knew this too (it's a relatively small office, about 25-30 people work there) but they didn't do a thorough enough scan of the building before locking up. i wish the office employed a system where doors could always be opened from the inside, as it would have saved me embarrassment. it was probably because i don't work there that often, that they overlooked me - plus i was working in an area of the building that is normally only occupied by two people, both of whom left much earlier. and i was working with no lights on.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Does "Ireland" not have any fire codes?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

my brother actually once worked as a caretaker/doorman type thing at the institute of education where my dad teaches, which is like a weekend school for people trying to get extra help with certain subjects. he once locked up, not knowing that this psycho french teacher, who was a former paratrooper, and loved military-style discipline, was still inside. he had to climb out of a window, and gave my brother an ear-bashing about it the next time he saw him.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 19 August 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Does "Ireland" not have any fire codes?

The quotes around "Ireland" represent flames.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 19 August 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

fireland

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 19 August 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

Me and a colleague locked ourselves in the fire escape once - we assumed our swipe passes worked on all doors in the bldg but turns out they didnt work on the one-way-only fire doors. So we could go in... but not out the other end. Or back the way we came!

Luckily S had her phone with her, so we called someones desk and said "open the bloody fire door we're trapped in here!" so we were only stuck for like 5 minutes. I never used that exit again.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 19 August 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

My work has parking on the roof with a gated ramp up to it, and my car got locked in once. I live a little over 2 miles away, so I just walked home and walking in the next day. Many months later, after I had been entrusted with a key, someone else's car got locked in and I was called at home to come and open the gate because I was the "close guy."

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 19 August 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

As part of a school entourage, a friend and I were at the Prudential Building in Boston and both of us needed to use the bathroom with a heightened degree of urgency. (we be drankin') So we left our group in the lobby looking for a john, didn't see one and went to the elevator. I pushed the first button I saw and it took us to the 27th floor. That didn't take long and we entered into a darkened hallway. It was a saturday and the offices there were closed. But we found the mens room!

Upon returning to the elevator we noticed a hand written sign that said: push button and pray. So we pushed the button, a little leary, and nothing happened - forever.

It wasn't until some guy cleaning up came by, maybe an hour later, that we caught a break. He showed us to the stairs. Before we left we used the men's room again.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 20 August 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

I got locked inside a psychics bathroom a few years back.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Saturday, 20 August 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

You'd think the psychic would have seen it coming.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 20 August 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

I locked my parents out of our house once. Not the same I know. A friend climbed through a window next morning to open the door. (The key was on the inside of the door.) They slept in the car during the night.

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Saturday, 20 August 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

later we argued about determinism.

xpost

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Saturday, 20 August 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

not locked in but people (actually the one person, repeatedly) would leave and set the alarm without realising i was still there. luckily the alarm had a 30 second countdown thing and i could always catch it in time (was a secure area and all desks were meant to be checked to make sure they were clear of restricted material by the last person out, how he did this without spotting a real live human being sat there i don't know).

same secure area would failsafe locked if the power went out. several times we were all locked in for half an hour or so. (it was ground floor so it never quite got to the point where we were looking at each other and seeing turkey drumsticks but...)

― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 20 August 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

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