PC OK (over kill)

I don't think there is a person in the western world who at one time or another has sat there, perhaps watching the tv or reading a newspaper, and thought to themselves, "god, that's just political correctness gone mad!". Well, you'll be pleased to know that New Zealand hasn't escaped this phenomina.
There I was first day in a new job, getting myself comfortable, sussing out where the water cooler was, the coffee machine, the nearest fire exit, whether I was able to access the web, whether I was going to be caught accessing the web, you know the basics. When

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I thought to myself, well what are the chances of that, first hour into the job and the fire alarm goes off, guess I better follow the masses, my induction wasn't till 10.00. Rightly everyone gets up and so do I. When something a little odd happens, to my surprise no one is moving to the door, quite the contrary, everone takes two steps to the side of their chair and starts an anarobic work out! It was like watching a prison film where all the inmates were forced to go on yard duty. There was Beryl doing here slightly awkward squat thrusts, Pete with his athritic back trying to touch his toes, Terry in the corner, adjusting his pacemaker to the "athletic" setting, Ruby huridly scrambling in her drawer for her matchig wrist and headband set, and not to mention Barbara and Doris doing shuttle runs to the water cooler, ahh there's the water cooler!

It's like clockwork, on the hour every hour, the same siren and the same ensuing mellay of thrusting limbs and slighlty pained expressions. Apparently at the last big meeting some bright spark notioned that the bank wasn't doing enough to look after the health of it's employees, and this was the result. I'm sure partly this is due to a kind of fingers up to those rocking the boat, but perhaps I've just stumbled upon the most employee focused comany in the world. Tomorrow I'm taking in my shorts, I hope nobody minds me dropping my trousers, afterall it's all in the name of health.