My web site (www.dumbentia.com) is not know for frequent updates. But I recently posted a few new items that you might find amusing.
As you may or may not know, I work in IT. The denizens of floor on which I work are mainly male, where the rest of the company is largely female. Not surprisingly, we have the most disgusting men's room in the building.
This is not to say that Facilities does not keep it clean. No, they visit at least 2 times a day. The problem is with the urinal, or rather people who use the urinal.
Someone has bad aim. I don't know if they are standing far away and playing target practice or are standing close and are too small for their stream to reach its destination. Whatever the case, there is usually a puddle under the urinal, and from the splatter pattern I can tell you it's not a water leak. It's a leak of a different kind altogether.
Tired of having to straddle a puddle of pee, I considered sending an e-mail about this to the whole department, but there's really no way you can do that with any amount of class. So instead I made a sign and posted it above the urinal. You can see it here, titled "Usage Guidelines."
When I put it on the wall it didn't have my name or URL on it, but the floor was buzzing. I hadn't kept my authorship a secret (I showed it to my group that morning, and my boss told me he'd hang it up if I didn't), but I needen's have worried -- reaction was generally positive.
It's been a big hit, and no one has taken it down 2 days later. There are plenty of VPs and senior VPs on the floor, so I guess it has management approval 9or at least management tolerance). My guess is that the problem is universlly recognized and I addressed it about as tastefully as one can.
On my self assessment next year I'm going to put down, "Created effective documentation for the waste disposal process."
The main thing is, though, the puddle problem seems to have gotten better.
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Meanwhile, I finally got around to posting my latest baiting of a Nigerian scammer (which is really almost a year old, but it was a long, painful one, and I couldn't be arsed to format it for viewing for a long time). In this adventure, "James Brown" tries to scam my character -- Jean-Luc Picard of Picard Enterprises.
You'll find it on this page:
http://www.dumbentia.com/gallery_scammers.html
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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.
