One of my co-workers wanted to do some office-cleaning recently, so us in the support staff ordered a “dumpster” for him. Which he filled up three times in two days. (Good for him!)
Anyhow, last Friday, after cleaning out some file cabinets, he left it in the middle of the walkway. Well, we asked the facilities department to remove it, but apparently they don’t know where the hallways are located and claimed they couldn’t find it.
So, Monday morning I called them and said hey, why the heck is this still here? Can you get someone to remove it?
They said we need a specific location.
I said it was specifically located between work cube X and Y.
No, they said, we need to know the location.
The location is between X and Y, you can’t miss it, it’s this huge bin filled with crap sitting in the walkway.
They tell me that they maintenance guy went to the “specific location” given on Friday, couldn’t find it, and that’s why it’s still there. So please give the specific location and they’ll have it removed.
What do you mean, can’t find it? He had to have walked past it twice, once coming and once going, to get to that work cube.
Well, if it’s not at a specific location our people can’t find it, so could you please give us the specific location this dumpster is at?
It’s specifically between work cube X and Y
Well, which work cube is it in?
(I can feel the steam coming out of my ears at this point). Dude, this trash can is too big to fit in any of these shoeboxes we work in, which is why it’s sitting in the fucking walkway between X and Y. “Between X and Y” is a SPECIFIC LOCATION.
If it’s not at a specific location our people can’t find –
IT’S SITTING IN THE FUCKING HALLWAY BLOCKING TRAFFIC, BETWEEN CUBE X AND Y. I WILL BE DAMMED IF I PUSH THIS THING TO A FUCKING “SPECIFIC LOCATION” BECAUSE I INJURED MY SHOULDER A WEEK AGO AND IT’S NOT WORTH FUCKING MY BODY UP BECAUSE YOU ARE AN IDIOT WHO WORKS WITH IDIOTS. GET SOMEONE UP HERE TO MOVE THIS GODDAMNED THING BEFORE I CALL THE CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT, IT’S DECLARED A FIRE HAZARD, AND YOU, NUMBNUTS, ARE IN TROUBLE FOR NOT DOING YOUR FUCKING JOB.
OK, they’ll send someone up.
20 minutes later an maintenance guy is on our floor, wandering around with a lost expression. I direct him to the dumpster in question. He says - why didn’t they tell me it was in the hallway? I was told it was in cube Y!
(sound of me beating head against the wall)