Washrooms of IT Companies!

A particular act of the masses has been so much levying on my mind for some days that I am not able to come out of it and how much ever I try to rationalize with the act, in vain.

With the advent of civilization came the usage of baths, toiletries, toilets, and places of private usage. But in today’s modern world in the concrete buildings and huge structures of offices in cities, this small enclosure that is used to excreta the human wastes has become more in demand for all the other things than its intended use.

I don’t know if I can generalize this act, but for the line of reasoning and to come to a rationalized necessity, I am generalizing it and using it for both the genders of human kind.

The most private and the enjoyable place of human inventions are the Washrooms, no doubt about it. It is 100% the best relaxing centers, seats of discoveries and salvation’s to everyday problems, OK. You people are getting the point; I can already hear smiles and nodding of heads.

Archimedes, found his theory of determining the object density when he was in his bath, the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged. Such is the worth of that private enclosure.

Yeah, so where we were…that place has so much to offer to us, in return of the SHIT we do there. But, who cares!!!

The toilet seat is the best and the convenient place on earth, none of the comfy sofas and beds would offer us such comfort. We are almost comfortable doing anything from reading a newspaper to magazine, a fiction to a non-fiction writing, doing mathematical calculations, working on our interest rates, the balances in the savings account, pondering over the ever increasing credit payments to be done, recollecting the outstanding bills to be paid, every damn thing we can think about sitting on it, which we can’t process sitting in the comforts of the sofa, air conditioners, the lavish rooms, the personal computers or along the waves of surfing that we do day in and day out.

When it has so much to offer can you give away your piece of heaven to someone or with something that disturbs you. Exactly, I can hear your “No’s”…I sympathize with you.

This is the comfort that it offers anywhere it is be it common place washrooms like the shopping malls, cinema halls, airports, railway stations, highway gas stations, restaurants and our very own offices, we can open our God given personal computers, our ‘brain’ to ponder over all the things that we forget the instant we are out of it, Alas!

I know we come to office for the job that is offered to us. But, at any point of time you can see at least one-fourth of the population, oh! You think it too much, Na…it might be a little exaggeration, but it’s fine, ya. Thank god, there are intervals in people taking their time… Ahem! Let me get to the point…

The point of my rationalization with the act is I find the afore said place is being used for all the other purpose along with the intended purpose.

Let me start with some good introductions of usage-

1. It is a phone booth. You can find all kinds of conversations, I guess the emptiness and the solace of the compartments make people move to it, as if the other places are crowded, anyway, conversations of cajoling, laughter, romance, brotherly, sisterly, mother-daughter, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, husband, children, boyfriend, one0night stand, newlyweds, newly-engaged, newly- in-love, introductions all kinds of conversations possible.
2. It is a relaxing center with the phone on ears. They comfortably sit on the washbasin stand and that too with stretched out legs and clasped hands, thanks to the ear phones and mikes, you don’t’ even have to hold the phone in your hand. Don’t whom or who is on the other end, you don’t whether they are talking or listening to the silence, who is benefited the ‘Service Provider’.
3. It is a place for all the private talk. This is the most common phenomenon; people come in groups and go in groups. I seriously don’t understand how this is ever possible. And even after they are at the private sinks they don’t keep quite, they continue with the over the door conversations, and if you ever hear you really go mad, at listening to all the code and decodes in the sentences. You never know what they are talking.
4. If you want to pick a fight with your loved ones, this is the place. You can scream at the top of your voice nobody hears and you can also hear the sorry and make-ups to follow.
5. The best part, if you want to have talks about the gossips going about in the office corridors or things like who gives a stare at whom, who is impressed by whom, who gets the most allowances, who is going around with whom, what are the affairs that are legal and non-legal…Oh! what not, a plethora of details and stories, indeed!
6. You can also hear the vivid descriptions of the most happening discount sales and the wonderful collection of clothes and accessories in the town and across the city! The best places to eat, shop, roam and hang-out! You can even catch one or two beautiful reviews of the movies that are running in the town !!! Not to forget you also get a medical help to the several or lighter problems in life which is a mix of all the ‘pathy’ of medicine known to human cure!
7. Last, but not the least, the intended purpose. Hmm…at last peace in using it for the right purpose.

I am not able to understand how they can deny the privacy and the peace of the place and putting it use for the right work. Some people even still talk with the phone on behind the closed doors of the closet. I wonder how they do it!!!

It is very disturbing when you find someone in there talking, laughing, arguing, cajoling, and doing what not. It sometimes feels as if they might be laughing at you, with no purpose. It is so senseless and I wonder, why, they hell they built the washrooms in the first place.

Or sometimes, I am really motivated to write a letter of requisition to the authorities asking for a phone booth area for all the love talk these people want to have or conversations of magical importance to themselves and let me do my work in eternal peace.

But, what should I have the subject line of the mail, keeps me dropping the idea…I feel tempted to say, ‘Allow some peace in the private closets of the Washrooms.’

You can read a detail of a 'Men's Room' here at my friends blog :
http://mota-blogs.com/2009/07/17/my-stint-as-a-sw-prof-part-ii/