OK, so why do things like this always happen when I am at work and never when my coworker who works grave shift. Sunday night when I was covering the grave shift for my coworker the alarm system we have in the building started going off. Luckily I was not alone at the time and the guy that works swing shift was still at work. He tried to silence the alarm as the display said something about an up link failure. No worries if the up link has an issue as it will try again and eventually get connected. Anyway I went over and keyed in the code since I had it memorized (I enter it every night when I set the alarm) which silenced the noise. After getting the noise to stop the display said something about running a test so I said yes. Well the monitoring company called us to say they showed an alarm on one of our doors. The door was labeled File Library door, which no one knew what door that was. The only library door we knew of was our tape library and that door doesn't have any sensors for the alarm.
Scott my coworker decided to go out and investigate the building to see what he could find so he gave me his fob (which is our keys to get in the doors) and decided to go all Jason Bourne and grabbed a pen and pencil for weapons. I was on the phone with our monitoring company waiting for them to see if they had a schismatic of the office to tell us which door was causing the alarm. As Scott left the data center I asked him if he wanted my pocket knife and at first he said no until I took it out and show it to him. He then came back in and gave me the pencil and took the knife. Long story short he checked to building finding nothing wrong and came back to the data center. The monitoring company couldn't tell us what door it was and after discussing it between Scott and myself we decided it must be an internal door and had the monitoring company disable it until morning when they could have someone come out to look at our system. Scott talked about us getting some wasp spray as a no lethal defense weapon because it can shoot up to 20 feet and will cause the person getting shot trouble enough for the shooter to get away.
All was quiet the rest of the night which I was glad about because after 3am I am in the building alone. Turns out that the door happens to be the one to the break room that is always propped open and that is why it was alarming. They disabled that door from the alarm system and so we shouldn't have anymore alarms for that door anyway.
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