I work in the basement of an office building. My office is really nice and big, and there is a little kitchenette that we share with two other offices, a conference room and a bathroom. The bathroom is the problem. It's not dirty or anything. In fact, it's a rather nice bathroom. There are showers in a little space off to the left and a urinal and a stall. It's pretty standard. The problem is that since this bathroom is in a secluded, little used spot in the basement, it attracts people who have to poop.
I have no real evidence for this, but my suspicion is that people who would normally use the bathroom on their own floor are embarrassed about stinking up the bathroom and having their co-workers smell the aftermath of their BM's, thus they make the trek to the basement whenever they have to poop to avoid gaining a reputation on their own floors.
This means that my bathroom almost always stinks, and the stall is occupied more often than not when I go in there to use it. Also, the toilet gets clogged far more frequently than I would like because of the abnormally large volume of feces the toilet must deal with.
All of this upsets me, and more so because I imagine that the people who are willing to come downstairs to poop must be the more foul smelling employees in the building. They are probably consistently stinky, otherwise they would not fear the reputation so much. These people probably eat goulash and Mexican food for every meal and spend upwards of twenty minutes at a time in the bathroom grunting and farting. They are likely the lowest of the low, the least hygienic people in the office, and they're using my bathroom which adjoins the kitchenette. Imagine my displeasure.
I am considering asking the building manager to put a lock on the door and give out keys only to those on our floor, but it seems impractical. Maybe I should just put up a sign, or better yet, maybe I'll go upstairs next time I have to take a dump.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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