getting wasted
May. 10th, 2004 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alenxa_classicThis morning on the way to the car, the complex's entryway cement was wet. Not just sprinkled, but trickling down the steps onto the lower sidewalk. We figured the sprinklers had gone haywire as usual until we saw the guy with the hose. A maintenance guy with the management company's logo on his shirt was watering the cement. Now, I understand that this is necessary when cement has just been poured, but this has been in place for months. We were walking on it back in March until they closed it off again--to paint it--and we've been allowed to use the walkway for weeks now. And this guy is out there, in the 6th year of a multi-state drought that egged on wildfires not a year ago, watering the fucking cement. We pussyfooted down the carport stairs, which had water pooled on them, and got to the car. He was still hosing the entryway as we drove by on our way out.
Then today at work, every single time I've been into the restroom, the first seat liner out of the dispenser has shredded itself because the maintenance ladies stuffed the thing too full. I understand wanting a well-stocked restroom, but this isn't helping. And I'm sorry, but we don't need the half-used rolls of paper thrown out and replaced with full ones four times a day. Put this together with the tons of paper we print out and toss out every day because policy requires it, and our floor of the building alone is probably clearing an area the size of Belize every day.
They say American kids use some ungodly amount of resources compared to kids in the rest of the world and show worse results for it. I don't think anymore that this has much to do with resources directly used by them.
Then today at work, every single time I've been into the restroom, the first seat liner out of the dispenser has shredded itself because the maintenance ladies stuffed the thing too full. I understand wanting a well-stocked restroom, but this isn't helping. And I'm sorry, but we don't need the half-used rolls of paper thrown out and replaced with full ones four times a day. Put this together with the tons of paper we print out and toss out every day because policy requires it, and our floor of the building alone is probably clearing an area the size of Belize every day.
They say American kids use some ungodly amount of resources compared to kids in the rest of the world and show worse results for it. I don't think anymore that this has much to do with resources directly used by them.
