Funny Thing Happened in the Bathroom Today ... I've written on this blog before about the "executive bathroom" in our office. Its not really any one person's claim, but it is a nicely appointed john off of our conference room, clean and well lit. It also affords an extra degree of privacy being that it is kind of out of the way from everything that goes on here on a daily basis. A winning place to be.

This toilet has for some time been my dominion, shared with a few others. Of course no one has any sort of proper claim to it, but there's definitely a feeling of entitlement that we've come to share. This feeling has only come to light relative to the fact that a new user has entered the space, someone not generally liked by the other users (myself included). Its none other than annoying "speak out loud announcement girl" herself. I only know that she has used or uses the executive john at all because I was talking with a colleague and he mentioned it and how out of line she was.

There are several dynamics going on here: first there is intra-office politics. This girl is annoying and stupid. She doesn't do her job well, and she's kind of a joke. I don't know who hired her. The second thing going on is seniority. My colleague and I have been here WAY longer than this girl (for better or worse ...) and we rightly feel like we should be afforded some privileges. To have this rookie who we don't like and don't respect go into that most sacred of man space, the bathroom, is playing with fire. I think my colleague is seriously going to write a memo telling her to stay out of the Executive Bathroom.
  ¶ 4:09 PM