May 21st 2015

May 21, 2015: Exploding lightbulbs of death! Or at least that’s the way Knucklehead made it out in today’s meeting. Apparently the lighting guy got a bad batch of light bulbs that have been burning out. Knucklehead made it sound like they are shattering and spraying visitors with shrapnel, like the improvised claymore traps in Skyfall. Yes falling glass is serious, but most of these lights have protective netting anyway. I talked to Knucklehead about it, actually I corrected him, to which he replied “oh no I just meant the glass would shatter and fall down”. If someone gets injured by it I will encourage them to sue.

Later on in the day Mismanagement picked up a stray. An old black man with a walker, who had just left the museum, was dragged back in by her. Apparently he is confused and lost. It takes one to know one so she sits him at the New Entrance and continues on with her day. (Redacted) is the guard posted there today. He thinks nothing of it while Mismanagement announces, over the radio, that the man is waiting for someone to pick him up. (Redacted) goes off on his lunch break and Cliff takes over.

Cliff is always one to blow stuff out of proportion so he makes some phone calls and the police show up. Mismanagement comes down the street to check in on her mess, then calls Knucklehead over the radio to no reply. Ten minutes after standing by, waiting for Knucklehead to not show up, Mismanagement finally announces that there are armed officers in the building. This is not enough to entice glory boy to come to the main building. After not waiting any longer for Security’s tinker-toy procedures they question the man and personally call his assisted living home.

The whole time I was thinking they were going to take the poor guy on a “rough ride” and cause more riots, instead I think I am more concerned with his retirement home. This ghetto looking van shows up and the police get all of the information. Mismanagment makes (redacted) fill out an incident report, or he made HER make HIM fill one out… I can never tell with him. Anyway I hope that old man is not going to get beaten because he came to this museum. I mean we all do, but I feel sorry for him.

Mismanagement tried to screw Sticks out of his break again. He is posted on the 3^rd Floor and Captain Redacted is posted on the 2^nd. Which means Sticks gets the 12PM and Captain Redacted gets the 1PM. Thanks to a lot of diva melodrama he can get those switched based on his own personal preference. The same thing with Tommy Gun. On several occasions this favoritism has screwed with other guards' break times (including my own). Myself and Bill brought up why the break times are changed from their normal times. Mismanagement (feeling outnumbered) did her head shake thing and everything went back to normal.