whacked out company bathroom
The closest bathroom to my new work area has sinks and soap dispensers that would even be low for people in wheelchairs, but the automatic towel dispensers are above my head. That means that, standing, you have to reach up to dispense towels, so the water drips down your arm while you wave to get the thing to give you a towel. And the paper is so thin that everyone has to get two sheets, so you're wet up to your elbows before you can dry yourself off.
I could go on and ON about the bad bathroom design in that place. Is it a work outreach program for the mentally challenged?
posted at 6:00 AM
4 Comments:
i think you should put the word "bathroom" in strikethrough tags.
10:56 AM, March 14, 2006
ha! that's the first time i've laughed out loud all day (as opposed to taking a running start towards the windows...) :| - thanks, p-man!
12:04 PM, March 14, 2006
Look for cameras. It sounds like a human factors experiment! ;)
7:34 AM, March 15, 2006
I want to meet the person who blew through and sold those touchless towel dispensers. I'm a marketing geek, and I can vividly imagine the product data sheets and the pitch.
* Reduced worker downtime. You don't want your filthy people sharing their filty germs and making one another ill, and not slaving for YOU.
* Reduced towel usage. Now YOU get to decide how much towel is enough towel.
* Enhanced branding. Don't be the last on the block to offer the Next Big Thing In Bathroom Design. You are a world-class organization, aren't you?
* Increased worker paranoia and arm fitness. Reduce employee self-esteem painlessly and incrementally through our patented "IgnoreEm" technology which requires them to wave feebly at the machine's sensor to produce results.
(snicker)
You didn't go into it, but I have experienced serious negative health effects due to the unmanagable DISTANCE from my desk to the women's in that place.
2:12 PM, April 09, 2006
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