Wacky workplace "amenities"

[Warrior Poet]

At the office where I work, the company has piped in music to the restrooms. Just the restrooms, nowhere else. What music, you ask? It's the local "lite rock" station. I have to listen to Celine Dion or Air Supply every time I go to the can.

So, without giving away too much about who you work for, what's your experience? Does your workplace have a company song the employees are expected to sing at the holiday party? Are you required to wear "flair," like in Office Space? What features, policies, or things does your workplace do, or have, that drive you crazy?

Warrior Poet

 

[Dingleberry]

I have to listen to Celine Dion or Air Supply every time I go to the can.

[Onion radio news voice]Tell them to change the station, for the love of chr***.[/Onion radio news voice]

 

[Dingleberry]

In the bathrooms in my office, there's a sign asking employees to apply perfumes, colognes, etc. "sparingly" due to "individual sensitivity to airborne scents."

I depserately want to put a sign in my own office asking people to apply bull**** sparingly for the same reason.

 

[Ambrus]

I have to listen to Celine Dion or Air Supply every time I go to the can.

Obviously your company's administration doesn't want its employees wasting excessive amounts of time in the bathroom.

 

[adwyn]

One of my clients sold a home a couple years ago and moved everything but the stuffed Grizzly because it was too large. He was supposed to drive back and get it, but things just kept coming up and one day I arrived at work to find the people who had bought the house had dropped it off in my parking lot. So I just stuck it in the first empty space I had, the bathroom. For the next year at least once a week there would be a shout or scream when somebody went in there and turned on the light.

 

[Warrior Poet]

So I just stuck it in the first empty space I had, the bathroom.

You rock.

Obviously your company's administration doesn't want its employees wasting excessive amounts of time in the bathroom.

You know, I think you're on to something. In addition to the "lite rock" (it pains me to even write those words together), they clean it using a major industrial cleaner with an overpowering and terribly unpleasant smell (many cleaners are this way, I know, but this is particularly potent). I really think they don't want folks hanging out in the bathroom.

I depserately want to put a sign in my own office asking people to apply bull**** sparingly for the same reason.

Dude, you're in the legal department. At an insurance company. That's like asking to put a sign up in a bar asking people to drink alcohol sparingly.

Incidentally, thanks for that one. Glad I wasn't drinking coffee, or I'd have sluiced caffeine through my nasal passages.

Warrior Poet

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Oddly enough, I find the association of Celine Dion with human excrement to be not at all jarring.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Oddly enough, I find the association of Celine Dion with human excrement to be not at all jarring.

I guess you can say that it "enhanced movement".....

 

[reveal]

At the office where I work, the company has piped in music to the restrooms. Just the restrooms, nowhere else. What music, you ask? It's the local "lite rock" station. I have to listen to Celine Dion or Air Supply every time I go to the can.

I wanna know what love is UNGH!
I want you to show me UNGH!

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I wanna know what love is UNGH!
I want you to show me UNGH!

Damn you, reveal!!! Now I can't enjoy that song anymore, thanks to you!!!