my day began, interestingly, with a hunt for oven racks. you know, before i started working here i thought that all oven racks were the same and that i should be able to take one oven rack from one apartment and it would fit in a different apartment. later, i learned that we have three standard sizes for ovens, big, medium, and small. the smalls go into the one bedroom and bachelor apartments and the big and medium ones go into the two and three bedroom apartments. so i thought that we should, corresponding with our three oven sizes, have only three different sizes of oven racks. today proved that i was wrong.
two weeks ago, we cleaned apartment 187, the oven racks were quite dirty, so we took them out and brought them downstairs to the swamp (a container of liquid oven cleaner). on our way down, we picked up the oven racks from 159, because they were equally dirty. we normally let the oven racks soak for a day or two, so we pretty much forgot about the oven racks and left them there for quite some time.
when we got word that some investors and the big shots at the company were coming to tour the building and they wanted to see a few apartments, including 187, we remembered the oven racks and went down to fetch them out of the swamp. however, when i brought them back up to the apartment, i found that they didn't fit! so i left them in the apartment and told my coworkers so they could give it a second try in case i was doing it wrong. but it turned out that the oven racks were just too small. so, did they shrink in the swamp? this was as inconceivable to me as it was to my manager, who came to the logical conclusion that the oven racks were missing and must be found. of course, we put it off for a few weeks, but when someone moved into the apartment, finding the missing oven racks suddenly became a priority.
the task was compounded when we received a call from apartment 460, complaining that their oven racks didn't fit in the oven. i went to 460 and examined their oven racks, they were very much too big for the oven they were in. so i took them and then went through all our spare oven racks, looking for ones that fit this oven. i found about five different sizes of oven racks and none of them fit in 460, so i made out a work order and passed the task along to henry, our maintenance man.
so, first thing in the morning on the last day of june, henry and i went on a hunt for oven racks. we found ones that fit into 159 easily enough--they were a standard size. and we found some that were the right size for 187, but try as we might and with much grunting and straining, we could not get them into the oven. so, we turned our attention to 460. we even got racks out of our barbecues on the patio, to see if they fit in 460's oven. we found none.
as far as i know, we still have no oven racks for 460. joy, my coworker, was able to fit the oven racks into 187. apparently, we had tried to get it in backwards or something.
okay, i know it's not a very exciting story...but the moral is that, phew! who knew such a thing as oven racks could be so complicated.
two weeks ago, we cleaned apartment 187, the oven racks were quite dirty, so we took them out and brought them downstairs to the swamp (a container of liquid oven cleaner). on our way down, we picked up the oven racks from 159, because they were equally dirty. we normally let the oven racks soak for a day or two, so we pretty much forgot about the oven racks and left them there for quite some time.
when we got word that some investors and the big shots at the company were coming to tour the building and they wanted to see a few apartments, including 187, we remembered the oven racks and went down to fetch them out of the swamp. however, when i brought them back up to the apartment, i found that they didn't fit! so i left them in the apartment and told my coworkers so they could give it a second try in case i was doing it wrong. but it turned out that the oven racks were just too small. so, did they shrink in the swamp? this was as inconceivable to me as it was to my manager, who came to the logical conclusion that the oven racks were missing and must be found. of course, we put it off for a few weeks, but when someone moved into the apartment, finding the missing oven racks suddenly became a priority.
the task was compounded when we received a call from apartment 460, complaining that their oven racks didn't fit in the oven. i went to 460 and examined their oven racks, they were very much too big for the oven they were in. so i took them and then went through all our spare oven racks, looking for ones that fit this oven. i found about five different sizes of oven racks and none of them fit in 460, so i made out a work order and passed the task along to henry, our maintenance man.
so, first thing in the morning on the last day of june, henry and i went on a hunt for oven racks. we found ones that fit into 159 easily enough--they were a standard size. and we found some that were the right size for 187, but try as we might and with much grunting and straining, we could not get them into the oven. so, we turned our attention to 460. we even got racks out of our barbecues on the patio, to see if they fit in 460's oven. we found none.
as far as i know, we still have no oven racks for 460. joy, my coworker, was able to fit the oven racks into 187. apparently, we had tried to get it in backwards or something.
okay, i know it's not a very exciting story...but the moral is that, phew! who knew such a thing as oven racks could be so complicated.
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