Ocado warehouse fire

[boobles]

Does anyone know what legal rights the employees have? Can Ocado simply let everyone go or are they obliged to pay them for a set amount of time?

[stuntmaneddie]

boobles said:

Not sure what the rules are on this particular building as it was mainly manned by robots.

Apparently this place had recently won an award of some sort for it's sprinkler system!!
A lot of scaremongering on social media late yesterday about evacuations, we live inside the zone but there was no sign
of anyone doing the rounds

[andrewparker]

B17NNS said:

wolfracesonic said:

Bloody hell, who knew quinoa burnt like car tyres!

deadly when burnt with couscous and kale. Locals are advised to keep windows and doors closed due to the acrid stench of vegans.

I almost took issue with this... until I realised I was sat at my desk eating an avocado and feta salad with sweet potato falafels that the Ocado man delivered last night.

[boobles]

People were evacuated from several locations. I think the scale of the evacuation was exaggerated....

[Gareth79]

TonyRPH said:

Are there no fire suppression systems in these warehouses?

One would have thought...

Apparently there is, and they won an award for it...

https://ocadoengineering.com/ocado-engineering-awa...

[Sheepshanks]

Gareth79 said:

Apparently there is, and they won an award for it...

https://ocadoengineering.com/ocado-engineering-awa...

Oops!

Ocado Engineering is interesting - must be very unusual to do all that sort of stuff in-house.

[Jordan210]

stuntmaneddie said:

Apparently this place had recently won an award of some sort for it's sprinkler system!!
A lot of scaremongering on social media late yesterday about evacuations, we live inside the zone but there was no sign
of anyone doing the rounds

Where abouts are you. In picket Piece police came knocking around 4:30 and later around the new builds fire marshals did.

Was very mixed as some people got told and others dint. Was all confusing,

Edited by Jordan210 on Thursday 7th February 14:30

[peterperkins]

Interestingly someone said the thousand robots can't see or smell when the place is on fire.
(Might be a useful upgrade for them, smoke detectors and infra red cameras)

Presumably they carried on trundling round until the fire was detected by something /someone else.
By then had taken hold and defeated the award wining sprinkler system..

[Penelope Stopit]

The robots didn't stand a chance, they were burnt to death

[anonymous-user]

Sheepshanks said:

Oops!

Ocado Engineering is interesting - must be very unusual to do all that sort of stuff in-house.

Ocado has big ambitions in setting up and running the 'online shopping' capability for other retailers

e.g.

Kroger

http://otp.investis.com/clients/uk/ocado/rns1/regu...

https://www.ft.com/content/7a67bfaa-dc24-11e8-9f04...

[Teddy Lop]

Sheepshanks said:

Gareth79 said:

Apparently there is, and they won an award for it...

https://ocadoengineering.com/ocado-engineering-awa...

Oops!

Ocado Engineering is interesting - must be very unusual to do all that sort of stuff in-house.

Jesus wept.

[anonymous-user]

Interestingly the chief fire brigade officer has come out commented that the fact the DC is almost entirely autonomous and therefore not designed for humans made fighting the fire very difficult.

[mcdjl]

Brooking10 said:

Interestingly the chief fire brigade officer has come out commented that the fact the DC is almost entirely autonomous and therefore not designed for humans made fighting the fire very difficult.

Theres a video of the inside of the warehouse on the link above. Imagine rows and rows of storage boxes stacked 3/4 high with robots running on rails above them. Theres no way a human can easily get in there. If fire lands on one and it carries on working, if it picks up a burning box, the fire spreads.Shame they can't fit the robots with fire extinguishers and get them to fight it.

[Jordan210]

Had a walk with the dog this morning passed the building. Looks a very sorry state as you would except.

From what iv been told was a robot caught fire high up what started to burn the roof. Then the track what they sit on calapsed and that In turn made it massively difficult for fire crews.

[Glasgowrob]

wonder if FM global will ask for the award back now

[Electronicpants]

Penelope Stopit said:

The robots didn't stand a chance, they were burnt to death

I heard one got out after a scuffle with another, rumour is that's how the fire started

[valiant]

Penelope Stopit said:

The robots didn't stand a chance, they were burnt to death

They gave their lives so that we could have our organic quinoa.

I’ll be holding a two minute silence to honour our fallen heros. <wipestearsfromeyes>

Edited by valiant on Friday 8th February 11:07

[stevesuk]

Had a quick check on the Ocado website, and can now book delivery slots again for my area (that was served by Andover) starting Monday.

Looking on their website, the next two nearest Ocado sites appear to be roughly 100 miles away.

Logistics of arranging fresh food deliveries that far from the nearest depot must require some head scratching. Some drivers covering a lot of mileage before reaching their first delivery, or some kind of rendezvous point half way I guess?

[Sheepshanks]

stevesuk said:

Had a quick check on the Ocado website, and can now book delivery slots again for my area (that was served by Andover) starting Monday.

Looking on their website, the next two nearest Ocado sites appear to be roughly 100 miles away.

Logistics of arranging fresh food deliveries that far from the nearest depot must require some head scratching. Some drivers covering a lot of mileage before reaching their first delivery, or some kind of rendezvous point half way I guess?

Might be best to avoid ordering frozen stuff!

[kev1974]

Hmmm, do even robots need to sneak off to a quiet corner for a crafty fag