En Fuego

So I get a call from the swing shift pit manager on my cell tonight:

"Michael, table 12 is on FIRE!"

I wonder how much it's winning (or losing) and I say, "What's up"?

"No! It's on FIRE"

The damned C-Stud table was on FIRE! The electronics (enclosed in a metal firewall) burned all up and smoke was coming throught the coin acceptors. Needless to say, we moved the players OFF the table and unplugged all the electronics. I also took out the power supply. That is aparently what burned up as it smelled like burnt up stuff; Not pleasing to the Lord.

Took us a few HOURS to get ahold of Mikohn (the company that leases and services our C-Stud tables). I got some kinda crap about the dude having to fly to Iowa and then get a truck and drive up here.

What an enormous pain in the ass. Now I have a dead table in an 8-table pit, that's almost impossible to move because it's networked with the other one and to a central computer in another office and the dude has to drive up from Iowa? There is hell that will be raised tomorrow. Hell hotter than the one that burnt up the table. Mikohn sux. If I owned that company, I'd have a tech out there immediately - within hours. Minutes, even.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Posted by Michael at November 12, 2003 11:12 PM