Scared Bunny

OK, I know I said I didn't like blogging about work, but I have to.

When I said that I was mostly talking about how, if you talk about your job, most people will not give a shit. See, when you talk about your job there has to be a certain level of understanding of the job and/or the people on the job for it to be interesting. My wife and I know someone who works at Wal Mart. Whenever we are in the store and we see her she tells us stories about what is going on there and, well, we try real hard to be interested. But let's be honest. The fact Wal Mart is busy is not at all that interesting. And a department head having to run a register doesn't excite me. Maybe if I worked there I'd give a shit, but I don't and I don't.

But there are certain things that are work related that are funny as hell. One thing I have noticed lately is signs posted at a workplace. I think the spread of color printers, and people learning how to do basic graphic design has employees making more signs. Plus I think a lot of workers like spending a couple of hours making a sign instead of doing actual work. I noticed this recently at my new job because we have a lot of signs. I don't know who makes the signs. I don't know the stories behind most of them. But I know they are everywhere.

Now, I am not saying we have signs like this classic from the past:



Of course, as I don't work in a crappy strip club, I am doubting they would ever post a sign like that at my employer. And, since we have very little customer interaction actually in the office, we are unlikely to have signs like the ones my wife saw in the ladies' room of a local car dealer:





(Sorry, we lost the pics for those.)

Then again, in my field, I am not sure the customers would find that too funny. Heck, I bet any of the 3 signs above would get someone in trouble with HR. That is, if HR actually exists, which is something I am not sure about given my recent efforts to try to contact them.

But even at my workplace, I have noticed some weird signs. Most of them are not that funny, they just show that certain departments are way overstaffed with people who have too much time on their hands. But one in particular has been bothering me.



Maybe I am thinking too much, but this sign seems really odd. First, I have worked at a lot of companies, and I know that guys have a habit of taking something with them when they go to take a shit. But I've never seen it become a serious problem before. Heck, every now and then I've been in there and found that the sports page someone left behind helped me pass the time.

So what's the deal? Was the men's room turning in to some sort of newsstand? Were there just stacks of newspapers? Was some perv, likely Jerome, taking in porn and leaving it behind? I want these questions answered, but I am really too embarrassed to ask.

And what is the deal with the flushing? These are not the wimpy toilets like we have in our homes that just don't seem to handle the average load too well. These are commercial toilets that could probably handle flushing a small dog if it ended up in the toilet somehow. So what the hell has been going on that the guys here were not able to get it all to go down? What were they eating? Were they just holding it for days?

The thing that gets me is that, with all of the concern over newspapers and some sort of flushing issue, there is one thing they seem unwilling to put up a sign. So I figured I'd make my own.



I am not sure that HR, if they truly exist, would approve of this sign, but I have to say that this is a much bigger issue than I think the flushing or reading material ever could be. Maybe those signs are just more effective than I would expect, but I haven't ever seen any reading material or semi-flushed toilets. But someone is pissing all over the damn seats and that is just fucking nasty.

So I think it's time to post my sign. After HR approves it of course.