Abandoned.
I am shocked! 
I mean, I really thought I was loved at my workplace.
I was in an “important” meeting. We were closetted away in the conference room on the top floor. In the middle of the meeting, an earthquake shook the building. We knew it had occurred, but we just continued on with the meeting. After leaving the meeting and coming downstairs, we were told that the entire building had been evacuated. People knew we were still up there, at least one attempted to call us by cell phone, but we didn’t respond… “important” meeting, you know.
Do you know none of my fans co-workers came to call us! No one put their lives on the line for us, re-entering the building, climbing the stairs, wending their way through the passages to our meeting room. They left us there… to DIE!
Oh, so its like that, huh? 
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Well I’m glad to see that you are okay even though no one took the extra steps to make sure of that issue. How bad was the earthquake??? At least we are glad you are safe and sound now!!!
hey Jamie, the earthquake measured 3.8.
It could have been worse for you. You could have been in an elevator, the earquake shook, then the elevator stop. Being stuck in the elevator with the “important people” and waiting who knows how long to be let out.
I am just saying it always could have been worse.
Wow.. they left you? Glad to hear you are well and out of that safely.
Surely you jest!!! You forget where yu deh? Did you forget where you are?) You’re in Jamaica buddy! Black man naw run inna building in earthquake fi save life. Yu tink yu inna one horror movie? This is a joke, by the way!!! But truly, I don’t think its our culture to risk life and limb for others in this type of disaster. Its not like those horror movies where the woman hears a noise downstairs in the wee hours of morning and leaves her husband sleeping in bed to check things out - we run at the first sign of trouble!!!
Unless it involves shooting. Then we run towards it to see who is quarreling with who.
Well, does you office have a disaster preparedness plan? If so, the fact that they knew others were in the building and left them means that it is flawed. If such a plan does not exist, then perhaps it is time to insitute one. Just a suggestion BTW. The problem is that people tend not to want to attend fire drills or earthquake drills, because they adopt the approach that these things rarely occur , so why bother? With a staff the size of your building, they should have a plan and test it as well. Why did the people in charge of the ‘important meeting’ not stop it and then resume later if all seemed well after? or, are they saying that the meeting is more important than the safety of the employees?? Serious implications here. But having read a post you had about your office in the not too distant past about a stranger who wass= in your midst and got past the new ‘heightened’ security measures, I am not surprised.As for me, I had a needle stuck in a patient’s arm at the time of the tremor. I did not feel it. It was a Nurse who told me about it. Had we evacuated, I would have had to do some serious early withdrawal (of the needle of course). Anyway, good to know that you are safe. Unfortunately, in most cases where things like this happen, plan or not, most people tend to adopt the ‘every man for themself’ approach. It is in a way instinctual, but that does not excuse the selfishness of your ‘caring’ colleagues!
Let me try to make it clear to you people. This disaster preparedness thing is kind of like….la.maze classes. When the sh#t hits the fan you forget all of it!
That is true to some extent Natty, but, it does help to reduce the hysteria to a certain degree if people have been through it before, and know what they should do, where to proceed to try to escape etc. (At least, that is the whole point of it, and it is even more important in large buildings with many people working/living in them.) But, the point is well taken. Enough of me.
Believe me Dr. D. I have been feeling tremors all my life and every time is like the first time as you dont really know what is about to happen.