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2004-04-20 - 9:28 p.m. Mysterious Goings-On in the Ladies' Room Sorry... it's not going to be THAT interesting. Let me give you a mental map of the layout of the ladies' room at work. The closest one to me, anyway... there are many. You go in, and to your right are three sinks, with two soap dispensers on the wall above them. Past that are two stalls. To your left are two paper towel dispensers. Straight ahead is another toilet, in what you'd call either a small room or a very big stall - enough space to be handicapped accessible, has its own sink, soap dispenser and paper towel dispenser - you get the general idea. It's used just like another stall though since there are only three. As of today, there's now a pump bottle of some gooey clear gellish junk on the sink in the big stall. There's a fluorescent yellow sticker on the bottle that says, "WATERLESS HAND SANITIZER - USE IN PLACE OF SOAP." Well then. Not so weird yet. You may think, perhaps they ran out of soap and put this in so that temporarily there would be something to use to clean one's hands. But nope, the weird part is, the soap dispenser isn't empty - it's gone. Removed from the wall, and the holes filled in and smoothed over. The wall just needs a touch of paint and you'd never know anything was there. It'd be painted already, but the facilities people who spackle are not the same ones who paint. I'm sure the painters have a job order in the pipeline. Did I mention this is a big company? It's a big company. So okay, possibly a new company policy to switch from soap? Maybe it's cheaper - maybe we decided to change vendors - maybe we were only leasing the soap machines and they got repossessed? Nope... out next to the sinks, the soap dispensers are still there. Only the one in the big stall was called away to glory. I happened to go into another ladies' room today, and that one still has all its soap dispensers. So was this one broken? Well, if it's being fixed and is going back up... why fill in the mounting holes? Why pretend it was dispenser non grata and try to remove all trace of its existence? You know, when I got this gig, they said they were looking for someone who would pay great attention to detail. I'm just doing my job here. For whatever reason, I'm glad the soap dispensers above the sinks next to the smaller stalls are still there. The hand sanitizer gelcrap smells like sterno and leaves your hands feeling greasy and sticky. If I'm supposed to use something in place of soap, then make it something whose use doesn't leave me with an overwhelming desire to remove its after effects with soap and hot water, as quickly as possible. my mood - |
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