My group at AIG had an emergency drill during work the other day. The drill very specifically was not a fire drill: all of the attendees were given a handout titled "Emergency Action Plan (EAP): Non-Fire-Related Emergencies." We received strict instructions regarding the protocol for handling certain terrorist acts, and we were told to bring an "emergency kit" to work that would hold the supplies and provisions we would need if we were trapped for up to three days (three days!!) in the office.
The expected jokes and grumbling ensued about what provisions would make three days on the 28th floor of a downtown Manhattan office building, surrounded by co-workers, bearable. Everyone agreed that a substantial amount of vodka would be mandatory.
Undoubtedly, the best and most informative part of the drill was the forementioned handout. Not only did it contain helpful bullet points, printed in two fashion colors, but it boasted five extremely alarming graphics depicting the various non-fire emergencies that might affect my office building: Chemical Release, Blackout, Natural Disaster, Biological [Warfare?], and Nuclear [Waste? Explosion? Winter?].
I showed the AIG emergency drill handout to N, who remarked that the graphics had conspicuously omitted "corporate financial implosion."
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