For those who don’t know, my “work” involves being the “den mom” (the only 2 word description I can think of ) for 25 physicians. My admin assistant (who is "BTW" the best AA ever!) and I are constantly amazed at how messy highly educated people can be. One of the perks of having our own office space is that it has its own bathroom. Everyone is fairly courteous about using “nice bathroom manners”… ie; if you have to do something stinky go to an outside bathroom, etc. At least there were good bathroom manners until late this spring when Dr. “P” joined the group. After his first week or so here I began noticing that the seat was always left in the upright position (no-no) and there were “sprinkles” around the bowl and sometimes on the floor (that’s just gross). So a little sign went up above the toilet which read, “ If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie wipe the seatie and put the lid down when you are through or the females in the office will come after you!” (The boy:girl ratio of this group is about 75% boys but though us girls are the minority, personally I wouldn’t mess with any of us!) The sign was complete with a “bull’s eye-target type” picture as a reminder for those who are visual learners! Bathroom manners did improve (and they are always superb when Dr. “P” is not working) but unfortunately several weeks in a row of being off and apparently previously instilled bathroom knowledge floated away in the bath house visited by said doctor while in Hungary. So, now there is a new sign…
If you insist on waving your
“Flag” in the bathroom parade
Please wipe up after yourself!
Names withheld to protect the innocent but
if we have to keep wiping up after you
you will quickly lose your anonymity!
Somehow, this was not the type of “supervision” I imagined when I wrote my job description! And no, his name does not start with the letter “P” but I thought it was a pretty clever funny on my part!
