life, the universe, and donna

(How much you wanna bet this won’t get as much response as my kindle post? Hey, it’s a door! Yay!)

So, the front door of my office building has been broken for weeks. It doesn’t latch properly, leaving it open a few inches most of the time. The wind blows it open, going through the door and not pulling it closed all the way leaves it open… basically, as one of my coworkers said, “The door has two jobs. Open & close. It’s only doing half the job. If I showed up every day and only did half my job, I’d be replaced! REPLACE THE DOOR!”

Normally, this wouldn’t bother me — after all, it’s not really affecting me at all, right? It’s the door to the building, not the door to our office. So why do I care?

Well, if the door doesn’t latch in the evening, the alarm goes off. Whatever, minor inconvenience that I only notice as I’m walking out. I make sure the door latches, problem solved (well, until the next person comes along and leaves it open, but I’m going with a “not my problem” attitude here.)

But more: Last night, there was a sign on the door asking people to lock the bottom lock when they go through. Now I’m getting annoyed. For one, the bottom lock requires a lock to get in or out. In the what, three years we’ve been in this building, that lock has NEVER been used — the top lock, which can be opened from the inside by simply holding it down, has.

My office building has a variety of businesses. Lawyers, a massage therapy place, travel agents, a daycare, and an ESL school. This means there are a lot of people going in & out all the time, even after hours. One of my coworkers even uses our office to game here at night. There’s a buzzer on the front door so that we can let people in remotely after hours. This is very handy for the ESL school, who have evening classes here ALL THE TIME — and no, their students don’t have keys to the building. What sort of RIDICULOUS building manager thinks it’s acceptable to require a building door be totally unopenable unless you have a key?

Come to think of it, isn’t that some sort of fire hazard? Why, just the other day we had a false alarm where we all had to truck outside while the fire department showed up and cleared the building.

If I left my keys in my office (our door locks automatically from the outside, I’ve left my keys here once before) would I be trapped in the building all night? Because that would suck ass. I THINK there’s a backdoor around here somewhere, but I don’t know, I’ve never gone that way. Maybe it’s locked, too.

I added a note to the sign. It said, “No. Fix the door.”

Sometimes I’m a little cheeky.