I boggled our Estates Planning people when I said we'd need space for a larger fridge in our new kitchen/staffroom area because the University required us to make budget savings and we don't have communal milk anymore. They just could not get their head around the fact that 20+ people bringing in their own milk will take more space.
Our latest architectural brilliance is a building where the stairs aren't quite wide enough for two people to walk up comfortably. They thought this would be fine because it's a sort of airy open-plan sort of building with a central atrium (what is it with architects and atria?) and people would naturally use one staircase for going up and the other for going down. Goodness knows how it meets fire regs.
(Yes, we could run a kitty, but then we'd have people wanting to pay pro-rata for how often they're in the office and people wanting to pay the same as the dairy-milk people when they're one of a few who need almond milk etc. etc. etc. and whoever was in charge of the kitty would lose the will to live.)
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Date: 2021-05-11 11:31 am (UTC)Our latest architectural brilliance is a building where the stairs aren't quite wide enough for two people to walk up comfortably. They thought this would be fine because it's a sort of airy open-plan sort of building with a central atrium (what is it with architects and atria?) and people would naturally use one staircase for going up and the other for going down. Goodness knows how it meets fire regs.
(Yes, we could run a kitty, but then we'd have people wanting to pay pro-rata for how often they're in the office and people wanting to pay the same as the dairy-milk people when they're one of a few who need almond milk etc. etc. etc. and whoever was in charge of the kitty would lose the will to live.)