Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Office Poop

No, I am not referring to gossip. I am talking about plain old ordinary poop.

Normally I do not take time during the day to make a blog entry, but I can't wait another minute to say this.

Poop on your own floor, people. This bathroom is for the residents of the 17th floor only!

The team of people that I work with is on a special floor. It is the only floor in the building that has no cubicles and is partially rented. All of the other floors have very few offices, mostly cubicles, and are completed leased by the company. The floor was originally rented to accomodate overflow from the other floors and was leased for the short term. Few modifications have been made to it.

One special difference is our bathroom. The bathroom on our floor, while in the same place as the other floors, is reversed: where the women's room is on the other floors is where the men's room is on ours, and vice versa. Same set-up, just flipped.

There are 8 females from my company on this floor. (Probably 25 or so males.) There are but a few females in the other office on this floor. My office neighbor and I have noticed that we have had "visitors" in our bathroom. I started noticing it when I came back from maternity leave. Frequently, upon entry to the bathroom, you notice a particular odor. I checked and asked if we had had a sewer problem, or a leak, or anything else that could be causing the smell. No word on theat, so, I started to pay closer attention. When there are only 8 of you, it is pretty easy to spy an interloper.

After lunch today, I had to go potty. I walk in the door, and yep, there was the unmistakable odor of human waste. I hurried up to take care of my business. And watched through the crack of the stall door. The offender was not a resident of the 17th floor! As I exited the stall, a the lady was quickly washing her hands. She wouldn't make eye contact and quickly ran out the door. I poked my head out of the doorway just in time to see the stairwell door close.

Seriously, people from other floors appear to be coming to our floor just to use the facilities. How rude!

1 comment:

KimboSue said...

Ha! We used to do the same thing when we worked for a neurosurgeon. But it was another bathroom on our floor. The bathroom in our office was rightnext to where the patients checkout so they could possibly hear u pooping. We called it "going down the hall" to visit someone else's potty....