Signs, signs, everywhere signs...

What did people do before desktop publishing?



Imagine the workplace toilet is overflowing, just covering the floor with human waste and water and no one knows what to do! Oh the horror! Someone in a supervisory capacity is contacted, and using their piece of paper that declares they are educated, they get out another piece of paper and scrawl a note declaring the "toilet broke". We the peons (or poo-ons, depending I guess) are all saved from our inability to handle crisis' and that college degree came in handy after all! Hopefully a raise and some sort of celebration ensues for the company hero.


I wish I was way off the mark here.


Fast forward to modern day. Anyone with a pc can make an anonymous semi-professional looking sign. Using a laser printer and some tape, you can inform anyone of anything, and declare places off limits with no college degree and no authority whatsoever. How dangerous! We can't have undereducated fools just writing god knows what in things like blogs about pranks, now can we? Anyway..



This brings us to today's funny business.

Take a standard "Stink closet" toilet stall.

I can say this; by 10 am, this stall has enabled the total destruction of the bathroom environment for all those wishing to simply take a leak. Bring a gas mask because for 2 or 3 hours, the engineering and software guys bring in novels, sit, and leave atomic stink bombs. Its maddening, but there are only 2 toilets and 2 urinals for the whole male portion of the company. Add to that figure, exactly ZERO exhaust fans and this math problem solves itself.

What would happen if these facilities were denied for one reason or another? My god, the gut aches! How are the software guys going to unload their horrific pseudo-Mexican buffet waste from the night before? What will become of the constipated engineers? Everyone may as well go home, because I doubt any code writing gets done by these guys with BRICKS in their guts! God help anyone with a problem because THEY are the ones with REAL PROBLEMS! There is no where to take a DUMP! What an unthinkable scenario..... or is it?

OOPS.

The toilet stall was apparently out of order for some reason. How do I know? The sign says so! We all must obey signs. Who would make a bogus sign for no reason. That's insanity. What would be gained by making up a bogus out of order sign? That's ridiculous. Do you know how many people will have gut aches over this? Is this funny to you? Laugh it up silly ass, I'm constipated thanks to a friggin' sign! Well fine, see if your company tools stay working...funny laughing ass.

At approximately 10:30 am the company tools actually went down as well as our internet connection. I am not joking. I noticed the "out of order" sign was also down before lunch. I can also say that before lunch, the bathroom was pleasant for the first time in YEARS. Also, the alternating siren level phones just continued to ice the cake.

I wonder if there will be a toilet memo? If there is, we all know it MUST come from a supervisor... or?