{"id":41410,"date":"2014-08-05T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T10:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/?p=41410"},"modified":"2014-08-04T14:19:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T00:19:05","slug":"screeching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/screeching\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Screeching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though as publisher of MidWeek<\/em>, I’m technically the boss, in my office I’m more like the opposite of boss. I’m the opposite of boss because most times around here I’m kind of a loser.<\/p>\n

Take, for instance, last week. MidWeek <\/em>has a really nice office set-up. There is an outer entry door, a foyer and a short corridor directly to my office. My executive assistant sits outside my office, so she answers the doorbell when someone wants to come in.<\/p>\n

Recently, the outer door started to have an incredibly agonizing scrape\/squeak. Whenever it opened, there was metal scraping on metal and had the sound equivalent of aluminum fingernails dragged on a chalkboard. Since that door is on one end of the hall that leads to my office, the set-up acts like a funnel sound amplifier. My ears were practically bleeding.<\/p>\n

With the traffic in and out of this place, the constant scraping noise was driving my assistant and me crazy. I had her call building maintenance to fix it. As luck would have it, they showed up when she was out to lunch. So when the doorbell rang, I gladly went to greet our repair guys. They asked me what the problem was.<\/p>\n

I explained about the excruciating screeching noise and then tried to demonstrate. I opened the door, and it didn’t make a single sound. I started pumping the door open and shut, but it simply would not make the noise that was driving me nuts.<\/p>\n

The two maintenance guys looked at each other and then at me. Then in a patronizing way, they said, “Maybe this is the wrong door. We’ll come back if it starts up again.” I let them out and I watched them walk away when as the door closed, it screeched as though saying, “In your face, boss man!”<\/p>\n

When my assistant returned, she asked me why they didn’t fix it. Rather than explain my total fail, I went back into my office echo chamber. I later found out the door only made that noise when you let it close freely and not hold on to it like I did. It got repaired, and I happily returned to my work. That’s when the bathroom located along the same corridor started emitting a loud whistling noise every time the toilet was flushed. <\/p>\n

rnagasawa@midweek.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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