Thursday, March 8, 2007 03:00 PM
How ghetto is the building where I work?
 by Fëanor

First of all, let me set the scene for you. This building used to be a factory. One of the two men's rooms on our floor has a bare concrete floor, pitted and dirty. The walls are just bricks painted white, and the paint is chipping and cracked and poorly applied. The ceiling is a drop ceiling, but some of the tiles are missing, so you can look up and see a bunch of pipes and tubing. The far toilet is a regular sit-down toilet just sitting out in the middle of the room with no walls or door around it. It's supposed to be standing in for a proper urinal, I guess.

I walked in this bathroom earlier today to discover that the yellow liquidy mess next to the far toilet, which I'd noticed there yesterday partially soaked up by a pile of paper towels and toilet paper, is still there, and so are all the slowly drying paper products on top of it. There are, however, no unused paper towels left in the place, except one or two sitting on the ledge above the sinks, and even better, only one roll of toilet paper sitting on the ground in between the two stalls. I had to share this roll of toilet paper with my co-worker. He described it as a "team-building exercise."



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