there are a number of bathrooms in the office building that i work in, 12 in fact. 24 if you count male and female seperately. over the last year or so, they have been "upgrading" the bathrooms in what i believe is an attempt to make the facility more attractive to new tennets. i guess you have to have something going for you since the floorplan will make you mad trying to figure out how to work in the space.
so i am in one of the "nice" bathrooms on my way out to grab a smoke. needless to say that they have not upgraded the bathrooms near any of our suites, but i digress. on my way in i notice a man getting ready to dry his hands. one, two, three, four, five towels he pulls out of the despenser. i wash my hands ever time i am in the bathroom and i need a total of 2 towels to achieve full driness. this man certainly didn't need five. and it got me to wondering how much else of his life is an exercise in waste.
i try not to waste anything, especially time. melissa noticed (after over a year together) that i don't ever idle. i am always doing something. she says i need to relax. i say if i don't keep moving, i might stop forever.
all that being said, the thing that i like least about the "nice" bathrooms is the automatic soap dispensors that don't quite dispense enough soap in one pass. but i digress.
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We are in some of the "nicer" bathrooms. There is one male and one female bathroom on my floor. There are about 100 people that use the bathrooms.
I use one, sometimes two paper towels depending how how good of a shakers I was over the sink. I do always needs two to get the good, deep, go shake my boss's boss's hands dry, and not decide they will dry by the time I walk back to my desk.
The soap dispensers also fully dispense one serving in one push, but that doesn't seem to stop half the people from pounding two sometimes three times. It is funny, those are typically the same people who will print excessively and throw it all away. I am a printer conservative.
And my personal favorite about the sinks, they have hand sensors that work better than any airports. Hands under, water on; hands away, water off. Ain't technology grand?
Posted by nameht | July 10, 2004 12:46 PM
Posted on July 10, 2004 12:46
That's something that always bugs me a bit.
I very frequently see people grab a big handfull of paper to was their hands.
I always assume they're the ones going out to the H2 in the parking lot.
I'm pretty sure it's not that their hands hold more water than mine after washing...
Posted by Logan | July 10, 2004 3:37 PM
Posted on July 10, 2004 15:37