Brian Improves Working Conditions

A few weeks ago I was sitting in the break room at work. I was very bored and decided to fill out a safety suggestion form. Too bad the best safety suggestion I could come up with was this:

(I wish I could scan this in...)

Describe Problem:
Lack of divider between the urinals of the breakroom bathroom. Dangerous crossflow combined with the minimal urinal spacing makes for a hard situation when multiple people need to pee.
Your Proposed Solution:
Add a divider or respace the urinals to allow for better access to waste resources. Unfortunately this will limit Ipod sharing while using the bathroom.

Well a few weeks later I got this in my mailbox:

Hello Brian

While the Safety Committee doesn't view your suggestion in the safety category, but still deserves a response.
We actually investigated and priced out how we might expand the bathroom facilities at Kipke several years ago. The women's bathroom is even more limited than the men's and that is what prompted that study. It would be very costly to reconfigure the facilities and we (management) decided not to pursue it.

The urinals in the men's room are very close together, but there is not room enough to space them differently without redoing the plumbing (another costly item). We could remove one urinal, but feel that having two is better in case one is out of service.

We suggest is that if one of the urinals is occupied that you use one of the enclosed toilets instead.

Michael Bodary, Senior Buyer

Haha can you believe that someone had to actually dignify that suggestion with a page long response. He even gave me a suggestion as to how I could avoid any awkward situations. To bad he didn't address the issue of Ipod sharing. Oh well.

I think this means I am entered into a safety drawing. If I win money because if this...