Help?

[Mytical]

Ok. I have tried to google it, I've tried to reason through it..but either my mind is not capable of understanding it..or something is wrong.

Can somebody tell me a sane, logical, and rational reason why somebody would use a floor buffer on carpet? Because if there is one, my mind refuses to acknowledge it's existence.

Oh and it is This kind

[TOLady]

Okay - I'll bite, under what circumstances did you see this rather bizarre incident?

There's gotta be a great story around this one!

[r2cagle]

They needed to wax the carpet to keep down the static electricity.

Or maybe they were creating the static buildup?

Or maybe.. they were planning on carpet surfing.

I got nothing...

[Stormraven]

I think it depends on the carpet - because I can recall, during a brief stint working with the custodians at an elementary school, using a buffer on an entrance carpet that wasn't removable, to clean it. We put soap down, used a brush attachment, and had at.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

That sounds like something the cleaning people at the swamp would do.

They dust mop the floors AFTER they scrub and burnish them, FFS.

Unless there's a brush attachment on the scrubber, I would think cleaning carpet with it would tear the hell out of the pad.

[Mytical]

Ok, we have a little office..that has carpet. One of the cleaners in the company, put UP the sweeper, didn't attach anything to the buffer, and plugged it up. In a way they were lucky however, they tripped a breaker as the scrubber was industrial strength..and can only be plugged in certain areas (draws a lot of power). As soon as I saw what was happening, I tried to warn them..but they ignored me. Then they tried to plug it in another place, and tripped yet another breaker. I thought maybe, just maybe I was having a brain burp and couldn't figure it out.....Hoped I was missing SOMETHING that would make this make any sense what so ever.

[Midnight12]

would have stopped after tripping the first breaker, IF i didn't know what a buffer was or what it looked like. Yeah lets ignore the guy that knows what he's doing and continue tripping breakers until the wires are fried or something.

[Mytical]

Well I am not a cleaning guru or anything, my job is Security, but you just look at the device, and 1 and 1 does not equal 50. I thought maybe there was something the pros knew that I didn't.

[Midnight12]

well..unless someone above you told them to I to cannot see a reason why a carpet needs buffing. but I'm sure there was a reason

[Food Lady]

To answer your origional query, alcohol? I've taken to explaining all kinds of SC/sucky coworker behavior by dead brain cells.