New office ridiculousness

[jethrien]

Our office is permanently locked - when you step out of the elevator, you have to swipe a prox card to get into the office. Unfortunately, the bathrooms are not connected to our office - they're down the hall. So every time someone wants to use the restroom, they need to grab their id. Unfortunately, some people keep forgetting their ids, and borrowing mine.

Yesterday, we got an added bonus to this little joy - they installed locks on the bathrooms. So now to go to the bathroom, I need to grab my id and one of the bathroom keys, and unlock stuff to get both into the bathroom and back into the office.

WTF?

(For the record, this is not something anyone in my company asked for. The building apparently does this to all of the bathrooms. When one of the VPs asked the maintenance people why there were big holes in the doors - our locks were missing - they said, "Oh! You're supposed to have locks!" and installed them without actually asking us whether we wanted to have our precious toilet paper secured from intruders.)

Comments

[hyouneko.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's insane. I can understand the always having the main door locked, but locking the bathrooms as well? That's a bit much. What really sucks is that the bathrooms aren't actually part of your office space.

[(Anonymous)]

The Flatiron is like that. They've now ceased locking the women's rooms (only the women's - not the men's) but all the office suites have prox cards. Everyone just carries theirs everywhere.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

The Flatiron is like that. They've now ceased locking the women's rooms (only the women's - not the men's) but all the office suites have prox cards. Everyone just carries theirs everywhere.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That's funny--back in the World Trade, when I used to go in with my Dad on weekends, he'd only be able to let me into the men's room because the bathrooms were locked and coded such that you could only get into the one representing your gender of record. I got to see the little boys' room allllll the time, so it wasn't really that interesting when we were stupid little kids worrying about cooties and stuff.

But it is still a stupid practice. I could see doing it if the bathrooms were in your suite because then you could keep all those visitors from spreading germs and make interviewees feel all nervous about asking. Power trip.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

The office locking, incidentally, I can understand. You work with material, confidential data, and there's the outside chance that either someone would wander in and accidentally see it, or someone would come looking for it. This isn't like Ed's cockamammie scheme to get a security system for the MedAbiliti office, where there seriously wasn't anything worth stealing.

Not to change the subject of this most fascinating post but...

[freekofnature.livejournal.com]

Are you and your S.O. the folks mentioned in the latest issue of the
Nass Weekly, March 9 issue? Family Affairs - Incest at Princeton (http://www.nassauweekly.com/view_article.php?id=456)?? by Ms. Landau?

Just curious, that's all. Hee, hee, BANDCEST!