All moved in.

It's Tuesday and I'm moved in to my new cube--UNIT 2122. My cube, everyone has a cube now, they're nice cubes. Some people are happy in their new cubes, others are not. But you can't make everyone happy so... Still, my new cube is very nice. It's more quiet than where I used to be in SP2 (Building 2). I used to sit next a meeting room and it was obnoxious how people would mill about and compare smart-phones. Then was the occasional idiot who would step out of the meeting and subject the entire floor to his Nextel powered conversation. I say Nextel because he would use the walkie-talkie feature "DEE-DLE-EEEE!!". Someone finally had to step up and tell him that we were trying to work and to please step outside. Actually, he had to be told twice because his initial response was, "it'll only be a minute...". His minute conversations felt like an hour, the guy was just rude. But there is no Nextel guy here in SP3.

Some people in our department found themselves in cubes next to a window. Some complained stating that they were too bright. I guess they'd never heard of blinds, which all of those cubes have. But I go back to what I was saying before about some people not being happy.

Everything is great but the bathroom situation is interesting. The men's rooms are being renovated because too many employees complained that they had become nearly dysfunctional, the towel dispensers were falling apart or just wouldn't work anymore, maybe it had something to do with the dents on the sides. I'm not sure how anyone was able to complain because I usually found the towel dispensers empty, banging on them didn't encourage more towels to dispense either. The soap dispensers didn't work either and the counter tops were chipping and falling apart at the edges from staying wet all the time or it could be because there was always spewed liquid hand-soap all over the counter-top near the dispenser pump. The urinals seemed permanently stained and I won't go into describing what that looked like but it made you want to squat instead of stand. Lord knows what goblins were going to spring out of those urinals and offend you. So! All this had to go. Building management had converted one of the lady's rooms into a temporary men's room. Wow, what an experience. You walk into the ladies room and it's like you're staying a nice hotel, so clean, so neat, no chipped counter-tops, the towel dispensers looked brand new. It was disconcerting when I first walked in, where do I pee? Not in those toilets, those are too clean to pee in? And look! There are little cute hospitality dispensers everywhere. Everything's purple, pink and Easter Sunday-yellow unlike the stained navajo-white and tortured peach colored urinals we had in the men's room. In the ladies room, you want to sit in there are talk about other guys you work with, football, politics. It's no longer just a bathroom, it's a sanctuary or relaxation, a little order in the chaos that is work. It's no wonder women go in to their little sanctuaries two or three at a time. I imagine it's like going to a sports bar and having a beer.

Ok, you can tell that I was impressed by the ladies room. There's a rumor going around that the management is going to play on joke on everyone and convert the bathrooms back to what they used to be simply to see how many people they can confuse. I dont't think they will but it wold be fun to watch and listen to the occasional shrieks.

I'll document later how my time is going sitting in cube 2122 at SP3. So far it's pretty cool.