Why does nobody talk about the janitor at my old office who predicted the parking lot sinkhole?

I worked at a data center in Phoenix for 3 years and this guy named Ray would always say 'that drain is gonna swallow a car one day' while mopping near the cracked asphalt. Last month a Ford Focus fell into a 10-foot hole right where he pointed. How do janitors always know stuff that engineers miss?

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henderson.vera19d ago

Yeah, @grace_bailey, actually I think that was a storm drain issue not a sinkhole but still crazy Ray called it.

felixlee1d ago

Wait, @henderson.vera, weren't the photos showing an actual hole in the ground though?

grace_bailey20d ago

Oh man, that's wild. Ray probably saw the small cracks and standing water that the experts just walked right past every day. Janitors spend years watching a place, so they notice things like shifted pavement or weird smells that engineers only glance at once.