Have you ever done a drill that wasn’t helpful when you actually had the emergency? (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

For me we had a few types of drills in school (lockdowns, shelter in place, fire drills) but fire drills were the most common ones. The drill did tell us to basically stay with your class and exit the building immediately (in some places it’s different now, but that was it back then). Which was logical, but one time in high school we had an actual alarm go off (someone started a fire in the toilet/bathroom I think, something like that) and it happened while I was returning from lunch (we had multiple lunch periods, so different classes had different lunchtimes. Many students were in class, we were just coming back and some people had started leaving for the next one). So when the alarm went off I was all just like idk what to do. I just went to the nearest exit but I had no chance of finding anyone in my class (yay prosopagnosia) so I just chilled there until they told us we could go back in. But yeah I didn’t really know what I was supposed to do in that case because fire drills were always conveniently when no one was in the halls. It didn’t matter though, but I was a little nervous. Have you had events happen where drills made for it didn’t help you?

 

[Violanah]

So we have a designated area in the company building where we have to go if there's a tornado. Unfortunately for people who work in my terminal, for us that spot is all the way on the other side of the building. When we actually had a tornado some people were scared and hid in the bathrooms because they wanted to immediately hide. With there being an actual tornado outside and not have to walk all the way to the other side of the warehouse. It's a long walk so I get it. I probably would have hid in the bathrooms myself tbh. While they weren't fired those people did get into trouble for hiding in the bathroom and not going to the companies "designated area". There was a lot of pushback on that though because its messed up. People were scared and hid where they thought it was safe. Leadership was like can we get a closer designated area, which higherups were like no. This is the designated area in the building for a reason. Everybody has to be here.

So yeah if your in my area at work when there's a tornado outside prepare for a long run to the "designated area".

 

[Ahsoka]

So we have a designated area in the company building where we have to go if there's a tornado. Unfortunately for people who work in my terminal, for us that spot is all the way on the other side of the building. When we actually had a tornado some people were scared and hid in the bathrooms because they wanted to immediately hide. With there being an actual tornado outside and not have to walk all the way to the other side of the warehouse. It's a long walk so I get it. I probably would have hid in the bathrooms myself tbh. While they weren't fired those people did get into trouble for hiding in the bathroom and not going to the companies "designated area". There was a lot of pushback on that though because its messed up. People were scared and hid where they thought it was safe. Leadership was like can we get a closer designated area, which higherups were like no. This is the designated area in the building for a reason. Everybody has to be here.

So yeah if your in my area at work when there's a tornado outside prepare for a long run to the "designated area".

“You have to be safe so go to this area!” “But the walk to the area is unsafe, can we have a closer area?” “No! We don’t care if you’re unsafe getting to the safe area, that’s not our problem! Liability and all!”
Probably how the talk for a safe area close to you went down, or something similar Im pretty sure higher ups don’t care, they’re just putting on a facade of safety and/or following laws as little as possible.

 

[Violanah]

“You have to be safe so go to this area!” “But the walk to the area is unsafe, can we have a closer area?” “No! We don’t care if you’re unsafe getting to the safe area, that’s not our problem! Liability and all!”
Probably how the talk for a safe area close to you went down, or something similar Im pretty sure higher ups don’t care, they’re just putting on a facade of safety and/or following laws as little as possible.

Yeah that's probably how that whole conversation went. It didn't happen during my shift so I was able to hide in my basement. I would have hid in the bathrooms too.

 

[Wingfrost]

We were never told when a drill would happen(besides school shooting drills), I think even the majority of teachers weren’t told either so it was always quite random. I honestly was always so confused on finding where I was supposed to be, especially since each year it would change so just when you start to memorize the area they want you to be and whatnot it changes all over so I can definitely see why that drill (for fires) wouldn’t be incredibly helpful. Also tbh I don’t see how the drill for a school shooter would be very beneficial either because 20 kids all sitting along one wall with a few desks in front of them just seems really exposed to me. And if you just so happen to be out of the classroom at the time of a school shooting you wouldn’t be allowed back into any of the rooms because the doors are locked and teachers couldn’t allow anyone in just in case they were a shooter.
Which I mean I get but the number of kids that would just do laps in the halls during classes out of boredom would be a lot.

 

[Dreamer_of_Songs]

Aside from fire drills, we have done lock down drills before in grammar school. But there was a specific lockdown drill that involved a white van appearing in front of the school. The scenario would have during a specific time period every year whenever we had the lockdown drill. And it is always with the same white van

And you know what, the school never went on lockdown when I was in grammar school.

 

[Ahsoka]

We were never told when a drill would happen(besides school shooting drills), I think even the majority of teachers weren’t told either so it was always quite random. I honestly was always so confused on finding where I was supposed to be, especially since each year it would change so just when you start to memorize the area they want you to be and whatnot it changes all over so I can definitely see why that drill (for fires) wouldn’t be incredibly helpful. Also tbh I don’t see how the drill for a school shooter would be very beneficial either because 20 kids all sitting along one wall with a few desks in front of them just seems really exposed to me. And if you just so happen to be out of the classroom at the time of a school shooting you wouldn’t be allowed back into any of the rooms because the doors are locked and teachers couldn’t allow anyone in just in case they were a shooter.
Which I mean I get but the number of kids that would just do laps in the halls during classes out of boredom would be a lot.

I didn’t think school shooting drills were a thing until very recently Sounds like a joyous time

 

[Ahsoka]

Aside from fire drills, we have done lock down drills before in grammar school. But there was a specific lockdown drill that involved a white van appearing in front of the school. The scenario would have during a specific time period every year whenever we had the lockdown drill. And it is always with the same white van

They should have alternated colors. One year white, one purple, then pink, maybe a red, rinse and repeat

 

[Dreamer_of_Songs]

They should have alternated colors. One year white, one purple, then pink, maybe a red, rinse and repeat

Exactly! They should've used different color vans each year.

 

[ChiaraStar169]

Aside from fire drills, we have done lock down drills before in grammar school. But there was a specific lockdown drill that involved a white van appearing in front of the school. The scenario would have during a specific time period every year whenever we had the lockdown drill. And it is always with the same white van

And you know what, the school never went on lockdown when I was in grammar school.

was the driver's name Daniel? So you could say "Damn, Daniel - back at it again with the white van(s)"? lol I'm sorry, I know this is a serious topic, but I couldn't help myself.

 

[Dreamer_of_Songs]

was the driver's name Daniel? So you could say "Damn, Daniel - back at it again with the white van(s)"? lol I'm sorry, I know this is a serious topic, but I couldn't help myself.

No clue at all because we never technically saw the driver because we were hiding

 

[ChiaraStar169]

No clue at all because we never technically saw the driver because we were hiding

did you get my joke? (if not, there was a viral video back in like 2014 or so where the guy filming was like "Damn, Daniel - back at it again with the white Vans!" okay, maybe it was a stretch)

 

[Dreamer_of_Songs]

did you get my joke? (if not, there was a viral video back in like 2014 or so where the guy filming was like "Damn, Daniel - back at it again with the white Vans!" okay, maybe it was a stretch)

Damn, Daniel!

Yes I did

 

[Wingfrost]

I didn’t think school shooting drills were a thing until very recently Sounds like a joyous time

It always made me anxious tbh, that was always a fear of mine in school and every time we did one of the drills everyone would ask tons of questions about the subject. It was a really long drill as well, we had to be extremely quiet and weren’t allowed on our phones as we waited for it to be over. A member of the staff would have to check that each door was locked in the school where students were and when we heard them coming we had to keep ourselves sort of in “character” is the only way I know how to put it. Even though we all knew we were safe it always sort of left most of us on edge.

 

[MK3AM]

theres a new drill called hold
i remember we had fire alarms go off and it was a passing period and people were confused and would not move they were moving so slow

 

[Ahsoka]

theres a new drill called hold
i remember we had fire alarms go off and it was a passing period and people were confused and would not move they were moving so slow

Hold? What’s that?

 

[MK3AM]

Hold? What’s that?

Hold in place/lockout
this makes students stay in the classroom and they can't leave until it's over its usually for medical emergencies or for an arrest +otherstuff

 

[x_x]

in high school we had bomb threat drill twice a year every year and we always ALWAYS had to go to the football field. but the one time we had an actual bomb threat they locked us in the classrooms for the whole day until they got the clear 🤨🤨🤨🤨 they didnt tell us anything of what was going on so we were all in the dark abt it so thats why we were mostly freaking out a bit bc ayo why train us to go outside but then contain us in the real threat. but its good the dude got arrested 🤪

 

[dark_tranquility]

Mine was stupid because my teacher was an annoying cow.
wouldn't let me ring anyone, even when the drill was over.

I hope she gets fired.

 

[Ahsoka]

Hold in place/lockout
this makes students stay in the classroom and they can't leave until it's over its usually for medical emergencies or for an arrest +otherstuff

Is it sort of like shelter in place (all doors and stuff are closed and locked but class continues otherwise) or it is majorly different?