There's been a lot of construction around the shopping center where I work. Most of it has just been a nagging inconvenience, but today, it got kinda serious. Apparantly, while the workers were digging a hole, they hit a gas main. Since it was right next door to us, security evacuated our store and told us to stay out, and well clear of the building for at least 2 hours.
Only problem, was we had 7 customer's dogs in the grooming room, and I was not about to leave them behind. My manager kept telling me to leave the dogs and leave the building, but I refused. I called all the owners and arranged to have the dogs picked up, while also trying to arrange kennel cabs for them so we could take them out of the shop.
Fortunately, they got the line capped very quickly, and security allowed us in without having to wait the 2 hour time period they originally mandated. The store manager had a time of it trying to call his other employees back in. All in all ithe whole ordeal took about 40 minutes, and wound up costing me half a days wages, cause half my dogs went home.
I guess I should look on the bright side...at least I didn't make the 5 o'clock news tonight as a crispy critter.