Observations

If you're like me, I like to think that the majority of the people whom I work with are at least simi-intelligent. However, I've taken note of several incidences recently that have me wondering.

Item #1. with our new and improved security around the office, many of the interior doors have been set up to open automatically when you scan your badge. Like all mechanical devices, these same doors are subject to malfunction once in a while. A week or so back, a young woman and her entourage of vendors with all their 15 sample suitcases went up to the door, scanned her ID and waited for it to open. She tried several times with no results. She looked at her companions and said, "We'll have to go to the other door. This one isn't working." I'm thinking is your arm broken? How did you get in before they were automated. Place hand on door handle and pull you idiot!

Item#2. We have a young woman in our department who has an architectural degree. She brings a fruit smoothie with lots of pulp for breakfast every morning. For the longest time, she would dump the dregs in the lavatory sink. Problem was that all that pulp clogged the sink and we had to call maintenance on a daily basis. The other day I observed this same woman run water into her smoothie container and then dump it into the trash. Yuck! What a mess. You'd think she could figure out that if she stepped around the corner, she could pour the dregs into the toilet and flush away the evidence.

Item #3. I can never understand how anyone can smoke a cigarette in a non-smoking office and think no one will ever know. You would have thought something like this would have gone out the door a long time ago, but no...it still happens.