Happy Holidays to all my fellow Night Audits on this Christmas Eve/Christmas Morning!!

Here's a little rant that happened to me last night.

About 1am my fire switchboard went off with lights and alarms. Room 1031 smoke detector it said. So obviously start sending security there and then I call the room. Male picks up the phone. I politely let them know what's happened on my end and ask if everything is alright or do I need to call emergency services. He tells me everything is alright, he said "The light on the smoke detector was keeping me awake so I disconnected it" i was a little bit stunned by the stupidity and asked him to repeat himself to make sure I heard him correctly. He said the same thing. I immediately chastised him, letting him know how illegal it is and he could be expecting a fine tomorrow. He asked what I could do about the light. I told him nothing but if he needed to he could tape a piece of paper over the light. Security thinks the more obvious reason they tried taking it down was to smoke in the room. Shortly after getting off the phone the alarms shut off and if shows the smoke detector was connected again.

People are idiots.