...find out how many zookeepers it takes to change a lightbulb.
One month ago, we sent in a work ticket to have the fluorescent tubes in the feed room replaced. Two out of the three fixtures had gone out, so we were basically working almost in the dark. OK, crickets and mice are not very dangerous, so it's not like working with tigers or venomous snakes in the dark. But still, it's the 21st century - not too much to expect electric lighting in a windowless basement workspace, don't you think?
Nothing happened for three weeks. Early this week, the safety officer came by for a different reason, and I told him about it, and he made a phone call and sent an email.
By the end of the week, perhaps unsurprisingly, nothing had happened.
So, although everyone said that we didn't have any replacement tubes, since we aren't supposed to change them ourselves, I rooted around in the dark, spider-infested storage room and discovered that actually we did have some tubes of the right size.
I took four of them, and I went and found a ladder. My co-worker R climbed up the ladder, but the fixture was weird and she couldn't figure out how to work it.
While she waited on top of the ladder I went and got my co-worker S and he came down and explained it. R changed the bulbs and now, after a month, we no longer have to work in the dark.
Even the mice looked surprised.
So, anyway: Three.
Note: This is yesterday's installment of Today I'm Gonna, because the experience was too exhausting to write about without a good night's sleep. Also note: we still do not know how long it takes government electricians to show up and change a lightbulb, but we know that it is in excess of four weeks.
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