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A Thursday Prompt story
© by Walter Reimer
Prompt: order
Alarms blared and red strobe lights flashed throughout the facility as the duty supervisor stormed into the control room. Stepping up to loom over the springbok at the controller’s station, the bear shouted over the shrill alarms, “What the hell’s going on?”
The shout interrupted the springbok’s paralyzed gawking at the growing swath of red making its way across the master situation board. He tore his gaze away and looked up and behind him, almost striking the bear with his horns. “Wha?”
“What’s going on?” The bear hated repeating himself.
“I – I just completed the test checklist you gave me,” the springbok said defensively, ears swiveling as another alarm preceded another splotch of red.
“Did you do all the tasks?” the bear demanded.
“Yes!” The controller’s voice now had a frantic edge to it as the warnings sweeping across the board indicated that a catastrophic failure was in the offing.
“Did you do them in sequence?”
The springbok’s ears stuck straight out. “Was I supposed to?”
The bear facepalmed. “What did you do?”
“Th-The easiest ones f-first,” the controller stammered. “And I s-skipped S-Step 4a.”
Recriminations and disciplinary action could wait; right now, the bear thought, he’d have to work fast before the city became a smoking hole in the ground.
End?
A Thursday Prompt story
© by Walter Reimer
Prompt: order
Alarms blared and red strobe lights flashed throughout the facility as the duty supervisor stormed into the control room. Stepping up to loom over the springbok at the controller’s station, the bear shouted over the shrill alarms, “What the hell’s going on?”
The shout interrupted the springbok’s paralyzed gawking at the growing swath of red making its way across the master situation board. He tore his gaze away and looked up and behind him, almost striking the bear with his horns. “Wha?”
“What’s going on?” The bear hated repeating himself.
“I – I just completed the test checklist you gave me,” the springbok said defensively, ears swiveling as another alarm preceded another splotch of red.
“Did you do all the tasks?” the bear demanded.
“Yes!” The controller’s voice now had a frantic edge to it as the warnings sweeping across the board indicated that a catastrophic failure was in the offing.
“Did you do them in sequence?”
The springbok’s ears stuck straight out. “Was I supposed to?”
The bear facepalmed. “What did you do?”
“Th-The easiest ones f-first,” the controller stammered. “And I s-skipped S-Step 4a.”
Recriminations and disciplinary action could wait; right now, the bear thought, he’d have to work fast before the city became a smoking hole in the ground.
End?
Category Story / General Furry Art
Species Brown Bear
Size 120 x 92px
File Size 50.9 kB
Listed in Folders
Got called off a rewire job to do something that 'now' couldn't wait. Had been down to just two wires for the 3-phase AC input. Came back to a ruined HF radio that they tried to blame on me. Checking the wire numbers in the T.O. showed the idiot that 'finished' the job for me swapped the two of them. Seems he didn't think that two wires for AC required they be hooked to the right pins ...
I'm just wondering if there were instructions above the task explicitly saying they needed to be done in order. Preferably in all caps and colored red with big warning icons. Not that it would fully help from experience but sometimes it scares people into doing the right thing.
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