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We're not gonna take it... anymore.
After seeing this fine, fine thread, it reminded me of a rather humourous series of incidents that have occured at a few buildings I have to run through to pick up recycling, mostly because we've had to place signs around a few buildings, warning them about their respective behaviors. For purposes of discussion, I shall call these two buildings Building A and Building B.
Building A:
(WARNING: May cause nausea)
This building is a 10-story dorm... and it's terrible. The conditions are actually rather good for a dorm, I must say. They even get their own bathrooms, the lucky sods. However, on each floor, there is a recycling 'pit' with two blue bins... invariably, while these blue bins will be filled with some recyclable material, they are always coupled with at least something that cannot be recycled. Allow me to present just a few of the objects we have found:
- Vibrators.
- Computer case which contained bugs.
- Water bottles filled with "cigarette water."
- Food with hair growing on it.
- Old meat containers.
- The head of a fish.
- A bag filled with vomit.
- Used tampons.
- Furry porn.
- Asian porn.
- Old people porn.
- An old mattress, complete with stains of all colors of the rainbow. And just about every smell, too.
Though all of these incidents get reported (we literally report an infraction on this building every week), the higher-ups at the university did pretty much jack for a long time, besides making us put up signs telling the people what was and was not recyclable... which of course did not help, as we all know SCs do not read signs. So, one day, the crew leader P, in a rare moment of genius, decided that we did not get paid enough to deal with them and that they should deal with their own garbage; after all, there was a garbage chute in every one of these recycling rooms, the residents just decided they weren't going to use them. So, he instructed us to just throw any garbage we found on the floor. We did. And when we left, the places were awful.
Two weeks later, we find a different kind of sign, one that we did not put up: "We are going to lose our recycling unless you clean up after yourself!" And we found suspiciously less garbage in each blue bin... looks like we made our point at last.
Building B:
(WARNING: May bring back painful memories of intolerant SC experiences)
The other building, by contrast, was usually not that bad. It was in a building with a bank on the bottom floor, and this bank was often very cool about students coming through. But, it was the people within this building who would always detract from the experience.
We've had people who work/teach there literally scream at us for coming through to pick up paper for them. Apparently, they were complaining about the noise we were making... by yelling at us. Yeah, fat lot of sense that makes. Another one has said how gross "you people are" and asked "why can't you use a service elevator or something." One really evil guy even said that we were unprofessional for coming into the floor where he worked dressed as we were (since we just wear our regular clothes on the job). After a few other coworkers and myself talked to our boss about the attitude we got in building B, my boss said that she would make a few phone calls. I don't know exactly what happened, but the rumor mill has suggested to me that disciplinary action was taken against the folks who just wouldn't shut up about us... somehow I doubt that, but it's all I've got to go on.
In any case, both of these buildings have only gone to prove to me how much SCs take for granted, really... we could always not show up anymore, and they'd have to deal with all the crap they throw away themselves. But they don't seem to realize that, and would rather abuse what they've got than take care of it. Ugh...
Building A:
(WARNING: May cause nausea)
This building is a 10-story dorm... and it's terrible. The conditions are actually rather good for a dorm, I must say. They even get their own bathrooms, the lucky sods. However, on each floor, there is a recycling 'pit' with two blue bins... invariably, while these blue bins will be filled with some recyclable material, they are always coupled with at least something that cannot be recycled. Allow me to present just a few of the objects we have found:
- Vibrators.
- Computer case which contained bugs.
- Water bottles filled with "cigarette water."
- Food with hair growing on it.
- Old meat containers.
- The head of a fish.
- A bag filled with vomit.
- Used tampons.
- Furry porn.
- Asian porn.
- Old people porn.
- An old mattress, complete with stains of all colors of the rainbow. And just about every smell, too.
Though all of these incidents get reported (we literally report an infraction on this building every week), the higher-ups at the university did pretty much jack for a long time, besides making us put up signs telling the people what was and was not recyclable... which of course did not help, as we all know SCs do not read signs. So, one day, the crew leader P, in a rare moment of genius, decided that we did not get paid enough to deal with them and that they should deal with their own garbage; after all, there was a garbage chute in every one of these recycling rooms, the residents just decided they weren't going to use them. So, he instructed us to just throw any garbage we found on the floor. We did. And when we left, the places were awful.
Two weeks later, we find a different kind of sign, one that we did not put up: "We are going to lose our recycling unless you clean up after yourself!" And we found suspiciously less garbage in each blue bin... looks like we made our point at last.
Building B:
(WARNING: May bring back painful memories of intolerant SC experiences)
The other building, by contrast, was usually not that bad. It was in a building with a bank on the bottom floor, and this bank was often very cool about students coming through. But, it was the people within this building who would always detract from the experience.
We've had people who work/teach there literally scream at us for coming through to pick up paper for them. Apparently, they were complaining about the noise we were making... by yelling at us. Yeah, fat lot of sense that makes. Another one has said how gross "you people are" and asked "why can't you use a service elevator or something." One really evil guy even said that we were unprofessional for coming into the floor where he worked dressed as we were (since we just wear our regular clothes on the job). After a few other coworkers and myself talked to our boss about the attitude we got in building B, my boss said that she would make a few phone calls. I don't know exactly what happened, but the rumor mill has suggested to me that disciplinary action was taken against the folks who just wouldn't shut up about us... somehow I doubt that, but it's all I've got to go on.
In any case, both of these buildings have only gone to prove to me how much SCs take for granted, really... we could always not show up anymore, and they'd have to deal with all the crap they throw away themselves. But they don't seem to realize that, and would rather abuse what they've got than take care of it. Ugh...
where they thinking?!?!?!?
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