Wacky workplace "amenities"

[Xath]

I work in what is essentially a government funded "stitch 'n (talk)" with harsh deadlines. We don't have the funding to get annoying ammenities.

...sometimes people bake cakes or cookies...and it annoys me when they have almonds, because I'm allergic to almonds....

yeah...I have nothing.

 

[Desdichado]

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

Or it wants to cover up whatever other sounds are coming out of the stalls.

 

[frankthedm]

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 would consider that a musical laxitive, it annoys the **** out of you.

 

[MonkeyDragon]

If one calls my company's headquarters, there's a themesong.

 

[Warrior Poet]

I would consider that a musical laxitive, it annoys the **** out of you.

 

[Chaldfont]

I just moved into a new research building. It's really nice. They have this polished marble everywhere. Even in the bathroom.

In fact, if you are at the urinal and you look down to your left, you can see an almost perfect reflection of the toilet seat in the next stall.

So now, nobody uses that stall for Numero Dos. Its funny, nobody talks about it and obviously nobody has called our building people to get it fixed.

 

[Warrior Poet]

Or it wants to cover up whatever other sounds are coming out of the stalls.

With "lite rock and less talk" ?

Industrial, heavy metal, grindcore, sure, that I could see to achieve that effect. But "lite rock"?

Warrior Poet

 

[Warrior Poet]

If one calls my company's headquarters, there's a themesong.

Why am I picturing the Hall of Justice from The Super Friends?

Warrior Poet

 

[Desdichado]

With "lite rock and less talk" ?

Is there a "lite rock" station anywhere in the U.S. that doesn't use that tagline? :\

 

[Warrior Poet]

I just moved into a new research building. It's really nice. They have this polished marble everywhere. Even in the bathroom.

In fact, if you are at the urinal and you look down to your left, you can see an almost perfect reflection of the toilet seat in the next stall.

So now, nobody uses that stall for Numero Dos. Its funny, nobody talks about it and obviously nobody has called our building people to get it fixed.

Classic example of not thinking something through very thoroughly before implementation.

I remember hearing (maybe apocryphal?) about a new university library that was built, but the architects forgot to factor in the weight of a million books on shelves once the structure was complete, and so the foundation was insufficient or the supports had to be re-engineered or something.

Warrior Poet