Thursday 21 August 2008

Too Organized

The Girl's Washroom at work has a official system for the identification of stalls that have run out of toilet paper. (This is because apparently looking before you lock the door and sit down is too complicated for the public service.) Each of the three stalls has a magnetic clip on it. Hanging from this clip is a thin strip of paper. (Yes, of course, this is laminated and includes the liberal use of ClipArt.) On one side it says 'This Stall Is Out Of Toilet Paper' and the other is blank. After you use the last of the toilet paper in a stall you are to go out and flip the laminated sign over and clip it with the writing facing out. In the morning someone must flip them all back to show the blank side, or maybe the evening cleaning crew does it when they refill the toilet paper. Mind you this was not designed or initiated by the cleaning crew, just an overzealous administrative assistant. (There was a memo sent out over e-mail to everyone detailing the system and how it worked when it was first implemented a few weeks back.) The entire thing is just so insanely ridiculous I can't stand it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm glad the admin. assistant felt the need to waste tax dollars by implementing this system. Didn't she have any work to do?

Kristin

Anonymous said...

I love this system, it makes me want to giggle, I guess all public servants (or at least the female ones) must be a bit dense. And perhaps the instigator/initiator/whatever is a little anal.
Glad to see you writing again.
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