Thursday, October 16, 2014

Bathroom remodel

Sometimes when your working in a warehouse you do desperate things when it's a huge open room with bathrooms few and far between.  We were remodeling a restroom in an assembly warehouse, it seemed as big and wide as 3 football fields, and in the dead center of it all was the restrooms.  Hundreds of workers at desks and tables, with a tiny 4 person bathroom for the women's, and the same for the men's,  they desperately needed updating, no ADA, no urinals for men's, 1 sink and 1 paper towel dispenser.  We went in and demoed, expanded, and added durarock to keep water from wicking up the walls. The old color scheme was 70's lime green and baby poop brown, classy just like the 70's.  It took us 10 minutes to walk towards the area, so if any tools were left behind it was a trek to go get them. We brought carts and on a quiet day we stole a golf cart to help make transportation faster, which only happened once.

After we finished with the work one day we noticed a strange office chair sitting near the outside of the men's room, as the weeks went on we noticed the chair would move a little bit from behind the bathrooms then closer to the front door.  We had to leave for a week while the other trades moved in, then we came back to install door hardware and closers.  One of the guys brought everything he needed, except the ladder, so seeing the chair he grabbed it, wheeled it inside then stood on it to install a closer.  He would periodically step on and off the chair to make adjustments and every time he did his shoes would squeak on the new vinyl flooring, and he didn't think anything of it. Making his last adjustment he got down, pulled the door open sat down, then watched it close at a nice even smooth speed.

As it closed his smile from a job well done slowly went away, and when the door latched he jumped out of the chair yelling various profanities.  His jeans were soaked, and he smelled like a wet diaper. Evidently the "chair" wasn't used for sitting while the restrooms were being remodeled, it was used as a urinal by a mad employee, his jeans were a perfect sponge to soak up a month of urine.


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