[GH85Carrera]

At my old job many years ago I always showed up first and opened up. As I pulled in the parking lot I saw a water line had ruptured under the street and was right in front of our building. I got the coffee going, and and made some signs for the toilets, "If it is yellow let it mellow, if it is brown flush it down.

A few minutes later the water department guy came in and said they had to shut down our water as I figured. I shut off all the processors, and that stopped all the water use. The boss came in and we were all in the kitchen chatting. He was pissed we were goofing off, but I pointed to the big trucks digging up the street and said we have no water. For a photolab water is part of every step of production. The boss though for a few seconds and said if we can't be productive we can clean the place up! And I replied "with what" and he was silent. He just sent everyone home.

At my last job we had a 3 phase electrical feed. One leg had died and the power company replace the transformer and a few hours. Then they said the pole will have to be replaced soon, and they wanted to schedule a day for us to be down. Of course the weekend was out for them. So we said how about a Friday afternoon. They showed up at 1:00 PM and said it would 4 or 5 hours. We went home for the day.