#incident

Excessive DNS traffic overwhelming infrastructure limits

https://fortune.com/2026/05/29/blue-origin-new-glenn-explosion-nasa-artemis-contract-bezos/

Anyone know if the fire at Shell Norco is going to affect our bonus?

Have you delivered a single new product since you became CTO?? In the last 3 years??

Reduced existing prod incidents???

Have your directives brought any improvements???
Have you improved anything at all???

Not a safe area to be after dark, unless you are carrying:
Police say a man fired shots after an altercation with a security guard outside a Corktown bar early Saturday morning. The incident happened at around 1:17 a.m. in the 2100 block of Trumbull Avenue near Michigan Avenue. The security guard, a licensed CPL holder, returned fire and struck the man.

Lots of EMS, fire and law enforcement on site.

The polish is off Freddie's safety record. Another death. Quick to blame it as a "medical incident".

What happened at this garage? I saw an email about a security incident. WTH?

All you closing managers be careful
Haywood mall Greenville had armed robbery a few nights ago.still minimum floor coverage even with this risk.

Well well well. Thankfully everyone is ok but unfortunately no one will blink an eye over this. All this talk about the design teams being next on the chopping block might have some merit.

GM's Design Studio in California Is Site of a Massive Fire https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a69137455/general-motors-design-studio-pasadena-fire/

These studios are not setup to safety handle pre production or prototype batteries. They will forgo safety equipment in the areas due to visual esthetics. They will actively resist skilled handlers because they are usually hourly workers. One poster said it the other day that people in the design studios are arrogant entitled people. In this instance no one got seriously hurt but next time they might not be so lucky.

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in a call last week MN mentioned five deaths this year from the Angola incident (3 reported deaths) and some other incident. Does anyone know what the other incident was? I think a contractor was also ki-led in Pascagoula due to a fall.

any insight on the salesforce issue with no new patients loading?

Chevron refinery and now Big Spring refinery. Has it begun?

I’m interested to see how Belk will manage this situation. It was expected that problems would emerge due to reduced hours and a lack of adequate personnel to cover store operations, especially during closing hours. I applaud the associates who made the effort to report the incident while it was happening. However, I can't help but wonder if they might face consequences for their decision to involve law enforcement, given that employees are typically advised to refrain from intervening in suspicious activities. This policy seems to stem from the company’s fear of lawsuits associated with criminal incidents. It’s concerning that many might feel the company prioritizes its legal concerns over the safety and well-being of its employees. https://wyff4.com/article/armed-robbery-4-arrested-upstate-belk-easley/68819933

EL SEGUNDO, California (October 3, 2025) — On Thursday, October 2, at approximately 9:30 pm, a fire occurred at the Chevron El Segundo Refinery. The incident took place at a processing unit located near the southeast corner of the facility. Following Chevron’s active response along with support from the cities of El Segundo and Manhattan Beach emergency services, the fire is now out. As a result, Chevron has launched an internal investigation to determine the cause.

Throughout the night, Chevron’s emergency response team has been actively managing the situation with a primary focus on ensuring the safety of employees, responders and the community. All personnel and contractors have been accounted for, and no injuries have been reported. As a precautionary measure, Chevron’s Health Safety and Environmental team has been conducting mobile air monitoring in the community.
Chevron is actively working with local, state and federal agencies, including CalOSHA, CALOSPR and the South Coast Air Quality Management District, who were notified and are monitoring the incident. Chevron is also providing information updates to the California Energy Commission (No period)

Additional updates will be provided as more information is available.

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Chevron's October 3rd press release about the El Segundo refinery incident is a masterclass in minimization - and a troubling case study in what happens when cost-cutting meets critical infrastructure.

Let's start with the obvious: this wasn't a "fire" as Chevron's sanitized language suggests. Witnesses reported a massive explosion visible for miles. By downplaying the severity in their opening sentence, Chevron immediately undermines their credibility. This is corporate crisis management 101 - control the narrative by controlling the vocabulary.

This incident didn't happen in a vacuum. It follows significant workforce reductions in precisely the departments designed to prevent such disasters: health and safety, operations, and process safety teams. When you cut the people who exist to identify hazards, maintain equipment, and ensure operational integrity, you're not "streamlining" - you're gambling with public safety. This explosion may be the bill coming due.

Someone should tell Chevron's PR team that using "actively" three times in a two-paragraph statement doesn't make their response sound more... active. It makes it sound desperate. "Actively managing," "actively working," "active response" - it's linguistic padding that screams "we need to sound like we're in control."

When companies reduce headcount in safety-critical roles, they often claim they're becoming "more efficient" or "optimizing operations." What they rarely admit is that they're accepting higher risk. Every refinery operator cut is one less person watching gauges. Every process safety engineer laid off is one less person reviewing procedures. Every HSE specialist let go is one less voice saying "wait, this isn't safe."
This press release is exactly what you'd expect from a company trying to manage public perception while potentially sitting on the consequences of their own cost-cutting decisions.

Bottom Line: Chevron wants you to believe this was a minor incident, professionally handled. The reality - a massive explosion at a facility that recently shed safety personnel - tells a different story. The community deserves better than corporate euphemisms and the word "actively" used as a credibility substitute.

Hope all are ok out in El Segundo and that if there was a human error that leadership is actually held accountable.

Oh, and don’t hold this against all of us for CIP…

Looks like a massive fire at ES refinery. Hope everyone is safe.

leaders are asking to suspend all products until further notice.

Welcome to the new normal!

Does anyone here have any crazy, wild, or just outright weird stories from Comcast?

During my time at Chesterbrook, PA location we had a BedBug infestation, apparantly an employee brought it into work and we had to go on lockdown back in 2016 to exterminate.

Also had an employee who was black out drunk at a Happy Hour and was asked to sleep it off in her car, Yikes.

What is going on with IT? Never a day we are free from glitches. It is impossible to get any work done!