So apparently one of the other Equipment managers, or hell maybe all three of us, have royally offended the baseball coaches by leaving the lights on when we’re finished. This is apparently a “security risk” and they’ve asked that we be more circumspect considering the equipment and what not that is in the baseball clubhouse.

I’m not sure how leaving the lights on could be a “security risk” when the coaches themselves are notorious for leaving the doors unlocked in the middle of the night and or leaving the alarm off. To me that’s the real security risk. As for the lights, personally I leave the lights on it the television room so I can make it to the door after arming the system without breaking my neck.

Huh? Observe:

Red A’s mark where the alarm panels are. The large gray ?’s mark areas that I have never been in (I have no business there) so I cannot accurately mark the dimensions. So yes, the red A in the office area with the gray ? is a best guess and I’m not sure where it lies exactly.

Now, my final destination is the locker room which is where I pick up the team’s practice gear and also where I put it up after it’s been washed. As you can see there is a door that leads directly from the outside to the locker room, but as there is no alarm panel there it’s not smart to enter there. Now I must point out that this is by no means drawn to scale.

In the entertainment room you can see blue squares, these mark the entertainment stuff. The blue box by the alarm panel is the mounted flat screen television along with the Xbox and PS3. The green square and circle mark the position of tables. The blue rectangle on the west side of the room is here the computers are station and the one on the east is the large big screen television, across from it is the sectional sofa. Now on top of all of this there are about ten chairs in that room. Rolling and high backed chairs, along with whatever gear they’ve left lying around. Given the position of the tables and entertainment sections you can imagine that the path to the door is quiet hectic indeed, now try navigating it in the dark and with a set time. It’s a mean feat and so I usually leave the hall light or the room’s light on so that I can make it because I really do not have time to spend picking up and moving their stuff around so that I can walk through easily at night. That and they get touchy if their stuff is moved.

On this one I have traced the possible access paths in purple:

Now there is a dirt path along the North side that is poorly lit and uneven that we could take to enter the door on the other side of the entertainment room. But then that still leaves the hassle of racing across to the alarm in the dark. At least when we enter on the first door the light panel is right there so we can at least hit the lights and make the mad dash. The other option leaves us making a mad dash in the dark. Broken neck anyone?

The last option is to follow the path all the way around to the East side of the complex. There is an entry room with an alarm panel there and usually the hallway leading to the locker room isn’t too cluttered. This path has us entering near the workout room, at least I assume it’s the workout room since there are ellipticals and weight benches in there though they hardly ever look touched and I see the baseball team at the campus’ weight room anyway, at any rate this path requires us to hike across an uneven dirt path that is poorly lit while carrying two large garbage bags worth of practice gear or pushing a large cart. That is actually more trouble than it’s worth to be honest. The only other option is to walk all the way around and enter from the East side then walk through to the West side and grab the gear then bring it in. Needless to say, since baseball is hardly the only team we do laundry for in a night we take the quickest and easiest route to get everything done.

So yeah, we’ll try to kill all the lights…right after you stop laying obstacles for us to break our necks on.

Besides, with all of the entertainment stuff and equipment in there I think the real concern should be locking the door and turning on the alarms coaches.