So one of our remote sites at work is on top of this tall building in downtown Sacramento and it's really freaking weird. To access the room the broadcast equipment is in, you have to basically walk across this bizarre exhaust duct with this thing blasting at about 40 mph. That vane thing, on closer inspection, is actually a gigantic glasspack muffler the size of a garage door.
But what truly inspired me to yell about it is the stairwell.
I didn't take any pictures of it, it's just a very boring stairwell, going from the rooftop down to the bottom of the building, I think it's 28 levels from ground then one down below for the basement. Every time I've been to this building before I've borrowed a key from security that gets me onto the roof, and that also opens the doors from the stairwell back into those mechanical rooms at the top.
Well today I used the station's own key that gets into the mechanical room but apparently won't open the stairwell doors and all of them are locked, so if you go in there you're stuck with walking all the way to ground level.
So there's a switch on the security guard's desk that supposedly unlocks all the stairwell doors, but... It did nothing! I called him from a red emergency phone in the stairwell and he said he'd unlock the doors and I kept going down one level at a time, trying the door.... Finally at level 14 I was able to get back out of there into a gray hallway that went back to the service elevator.
So, none of those doors had any visible signs of having an electric strike or anything, they were just locked doors.
Who was the contractor who got paid for this BS? That's what I'd love to know. Also my feet and legs are sore. I don't recommend going down 14 floors worth of stairs in 6" platform Mary Janes.