Women's Rest Room Report
Posted by erin at May 5, 2003 02:31 PMHere at my place of employment, we have pretty good bathrooms. I've heard my coworkers complain that the bathrooms are unclean, or that there's one toilet that never works, but really, I can't complain. After years of using NYC bathrooms and going to East Village bars, I would rate the bathrooms at my office as very clean, and functioning quite well.
However, the second law of thermodynamics is taking it's course in this brand-new building. One of the three faucets has broken and its been out-of-commision for months. Today, two of the four toilets are completely out of order.
Whatever - I don't mind too much. What I do mind is the newest addition to the lady's room: the door extensions. About a month ago there was a lot of loud, noisy work going on in there that included drilling. When the work was complete - low and behold, the bathroom stall doors had been extended on either side by half an inch or so. Apparently, people had been complaining that one could see through the stall doors by looking into the gaps between the doors and the stall door frame.
I can assure you, dear reader, one couldn't see much through these gaps. I'm horrified and appalled that the company 1) got so many complaints that they felt they had to solve this non-problem, and 2) spent god knows how much money to do unnecessary repairs to a perfectly good bathroom.
Why couldn't they fix the middle sink or the unflushable toilet instead?
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May 6, 2003 01:21 AM, Maggie said:
At amazon, we have these circular bathrooms, where you enter through one door, do your thing, wash your hands, dry them, and leave through another door. There's even a circle pattern on the floor in case you get confused which way to go. People are paranoid at amazon about things breaking and have a giant system for fixing things that are broken (from the website to wobbly chairs and non-functioning faucets) so I haven't yet witnessed anything broken (probably 'cause it didn't stay broken long enough for anyone to notice).
It's a nice huge building - like a hospital, but with carpets everywhere.
May 6, 2003 09:43 AM, Erin said:
Maybe it used to be a hospital!
If your building was in New Jersey, I would suggest that amazon is in an abandoned mental institution.
May 6, 2003 08:13 PM, Kari said:
Maggie, it was a hospital!
May 7, 2003 12:16 PM, Maggie said:
I know it was a hospital. The mail room is in the basement, in the room that used to be the morgue. Yay, ghost stories!
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