My office has no water

[whitepicketfence]

Oh man, that sucks. I've never had that happen at work but I would imagine they'd have to let everyone go home if they can't fix it quickly.

[shortstax]

Can you request to work from home today?

[ECB]

There are OSHA regulations around this. One time the office building I was in lost water and w/in an hour or two, they had a fleet of port-a-potties and hand washing stations out by the delivery bay!

[jaylea]

My last job had us working two days without water - I think we were about 6 hours without it. Ridiculous.

[Velvetshady]

Oct 31, 2012 7:23:39 GMT -5 @peggyolson said:

They don't necessarily *have* to let you go home. Is your entire building without water? Are there other buildings close by with water?

Actually, they do if the building is without running water for a certain amount of time (a couple of hours I believe). The only time in that 10 years my office has officially closed was during a hurricane where we didn't have running water in the building. The police showed up and told them they had to close and escorted everyone out (everyone being the office manager, the hourly employees and admin staff that don't have the option to work from home, and a few of us that had a proposal still due that day).

Not sure what other buildings around having water would have to do with it.

[rubytue]

Glad you got it back! But I'm pretty sure the pp was right and they can't have you working more than a few hours without restroom facilities.

[chessie]

Uh, that was the only reason why i came into work, power = no water for me..

[takeonyou]

Yes, they must make everyone leave if it is more than 3 hours (I believe) without running water. It's considered a health hazard.

[Deleted]

Is this a tall building? I ask because the fire department would make you evacuate the building if there is no water.
We had a water main burst at my old job and they evacuated the whole building--like get out NOW-because if there had been a fire, they wouldn't have been able to fight it.