Off Off Off

I came into work today to discover that the fish system was off.

Which isn't a good thing to come into.

Because unless the manager had a reason to turn the system off in the thirty minutes to an hour before I came in...it would mean that our fish wall had been without running water all night long.

Not always an issue. It's happened before. The water being off. 

But the way the fishtanks were looking?

The water had been off a lot longer than overnight.

A lot of the tanks were cloudy looking and some of them stank. 

I hadn't seen the tanks look like that before, which was a cause for concern.

And then I went into the back.

And discovered that the fish system had been set to 'feedhold'

But the light indicating the feedhold wasn't blinking.

Meaning that unless someone physically went into the back to manually turn the fish system back on....the fish system wouldn't turn back on otherwise.

Because if the light was blinking it would mean it was on a timer and would turn the system back on within a certain time frame. 

Which meant that my coworkers had turned the system off at some point to feed the fish.....

And never turned it back on. 

So I went to the manager and asked them if they knew when my coworkers had fed the fish.

I got the response that the fish truck had come in late, not until 2pm and that the manager had left soon after, so they weren't sure when the fish were fed.

Usually on fish day we don't feed the fish until after all the new fish have been placed into their tanks. -That way we would only have to feed once. 

But with the fish coming in late...it's possible that the fish were fed before the shipment arrived.

Which would explain why some tanks were murkier than others.

Because if the fish system had been off when the fish arrived.

Then the water in the bags that the fish were in wouldn't have been filtered out.

And if the bags had dead fish in them -as some fish do die on the journey to our store--then that water wouldn't be filtered out either.

In either case.

The system had been off since whenever my coworkers had decided to feed the fish.

Whether it was after the fish shipment showed up -around 3-4pm possibly-

Or earlier in the morning like around 11am when the fish are usually fed....

It still meant that the fish system had been off for a long long time. 

And it boggles my mind that in that entire day....no one thought to turn the system back on. 

I can partially get it because the midday coworker is brand new, so they may not know the proper way to turn the system off and on for feeding. 

But still.

The closing coworker, the closing manager, someone should have noticed....that the fish system wasn't on and gone to turn it on.

Nope. *exhales*

Until you next see these words;

I'll be watching the leaves.

Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi