Got fire training at work...

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Next Wednesday some of the staff are on a fire training thing during their shift. I'm not on it, so I'll just come into work as normal, but when there's fire training going on in the building, they set off all the alarms at least twice in the day (as part of the fire training), and you don't know when it's going to go off. The fire alarms generally don't bother me if it goes off completely unexpected or when we have our weekly fire test at a certain time, but when you know it's going to go off at some point but you don't know when, it makes me jump more, from the anticipation of it.

The fire trainor doesn't have a planned time to set it off either. I know it's important to know how to raise the alarm and stuff, but we have our weekly fire alarm test, so I don't see the need to have to keep setting it off during fire training as well, as it is a busy place and the alarms going off can be distracting to the rest of the workers.

What shall I do to get through this day as comfortably as possible? I don't want to wear earplugs because people might see, and I don't want people to know that I'm afraid of the fire alarms.

If you normally wear headphones to listen to music while you clean, just continue to wear the headphones.

Otherwise....you might have to bite the bullet on this. Or get inconspicuous headphones....the "in your ear" type.

Fire training? Is it about the proper way to set ablaze some annoying boss or co-worker's belongings and get away with it? That's a superb idea! ... Oh, wait ...

On alarm test days I tend to jog past all the alarm points and try to make sure there's a closed door between me and the nearest one where possible. And to make sure I'm carrying things as little as possible, and keep my jaw shut (not difficult). The ideal thing is to somehow forget that it's going to happen, but that's not something you can exactly do deliberately.