Piss Poor Planning

They remodeled the women's bathrooms at work. They look really nice. That's where the compliments end.

My first complaint is everything's set up on motion sensors. Even the toilet. For some reason a toilet that can flush itself freaks me out. I think it's because one time I was on a toilet that I didn't know did that and leaned over to tie my shoes. I would say I almost peed my pants when the toilet flushed by itself, but I was already done peeing, plus my pants were down around my ankles, interfering in my ability to tie my shoes.

The sinks are also hooked up to motion sensors. You can't adjust the temperature of the water or how fast or slow it flows. All you can do is stick your hands under the nozzle and move them around until the motion sensor notices you're there. That isn't too bad, and I could live with it, except the motion sensor is up on the underside of the faucet, so your hands have to be up out of the actual bowl of the sink to get any water, which means water's splashing off your hands all over the faucet and countertop and mirror. And yourself. When any's coming out of the faucet at all because every time you move your hands the faucet thinks you're done and shuts off.

They even have the soap dispensers on motion sensors, so while you're washing your hands every now and then the soap dispenser will just squirt a little extra soap into the sink because your hands got too close to the sensor while you're fighting with the faucet for more water.

About the only things not on motion sensors are the towel dispenser and the 'lady stuff' dispenser, but I have a bone to pick about them, too. First off, I still miss the 'lady stuff' dispenser at the factory I used to work at that had been pried open by somebody so you could just reach in and grab whatever you needed. Quarters? Who needs quarters? I couldn't believe they kept filling it up but they did. But I digress.

These are way down on the walls so they're handicap accessible. Not that there's anything wrong with that. We don't have anybody in a wheelchair right now, but that doesn't mean they won't hire someone who is, or someone might break their leg or something and end up in one. What bugs be about them is, first, they're lower than they used to be. I don't like change. Unless there's a good reason to change something leave it alone. I could grumble and shake my head and go on about my business, but there aren't any handicapped stalls in the bathroom. They have the sinks and all the dispensers down low enough to irritate anyone not in a wheelchair, but no stalls big enough to use if you're unfortunate enough to actually be in a wheelchair.

Now, before you say that's against the law, there has to be a wheelchair accessible stall in the bathroom, let me assure you there is. In the other bathroom. You see, the people who designed this building were obviously on crack. Or thought God might be planning on coming out with a third sex. There is one men's room and two women's rooms. The women's rooms are actually back to back, so I don't know why they didn't just make it one big-ass bathroom but they didn't ask my opinion. Anyway, both women's rooms are exactly the same, except one stall in one room is extra wide. The rest of them seem smaller than before. Not as small as a stall I used in a gas station once that was so small the toilet was set at an angle so there was room for the door to swing open and shut. You had to practically stand on the toilet to open the door.

I don't know why they didn't put in a handicapped stall in both women's rooms. I mean, they made everything else handicapped. Maybe just in case someone wanted to wheel in and wash their hands, but then why have the 'lady stuff' dispenser down there, too? Do they expect some lady to just pop one in sitting there in the middle of the bathroom? Too gross. Plus, handicapped stalls aren't just for wheelchairs. I don't want to sound mean, but some of the ladies where I work are extra large. Way past big boned. No way would they fit in the ordinary stalls. Not without needing a chain and a winch to get back out. Once again, not meaning to sound mean, but they're just plain too big to fit.

So, the bathrooms are pretty, but other than that I think they wasted their money. They should have bought us all lunch if they had extra money to just piss off. Hehehe. Piss off.