The glamorous life of a librarian...

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...today the most important thing I've done is put an "Out of Order" sign on a stall in the women's room and phone the physical plant to put in a work order. It's not an emergency - just a blockage, but nothing overflowing and we've got plenty of other bathrooms in the building - so it can wait until tomorrow unless someone ignores the OUT OF ORDER sign.

However someone came up to one of the IC student workers and reported that *gasp* there was a toilet out of order in the women's room. Gosh, ya think maybe the large OUT OF ORDER sign might clue you in that we know about it already?

(I should probably go double-check and make sure no one's ripped the sign off, or that none of the other toilets has gotten stopped up, actually. ETA: Yup, someone was reporting that the stall with the OUT OF ORDER sign was ... out of order.)

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I see that all of the time here at work: in our case, some dolt in IT will climb in regardless of the sign, take a dump the size of a suitcase, watch it slop over the side, and then come out to Customer Service to complain that the toilet's backed up...even though he could have used two other stalls. Sigh.