Maybe it's none of my business and maybe I should be focusing on other things (like my job) today, but for the last hour, I've been stewing over a bitter rant that I can't allow myself to deliver to the people who inspired it. The plant service folks are roaming around the building, decorating it for the holidays. Even aside from my irritation at having "Christmas" decorations up before Thanksgiving--I hate what they're doing.
One of the beautiful features of this little building is the two-story atrium in the center of the building, and the railings (balcony and stairwell) of solid wood.
Those fool women are dashing around pounding huge nails into the wood, so they can hang wreaths and garlands from every wood surface.
Am I wrong in thinking that this is wanton destruction? Why don't they do what other companies do--wrap wire around the railing to hold the weight of the garland, or use removable sticky-pads?
Do you not think they would have noticed that there were no nail-holes from previous years, and maybe stopped to think that maybe there was a different way to proceed?
I'm surprised: usually services like that are pretty careful about the properties they are working on, because the property owners often object to this kind of thing.
A word to the building management, perhaps?
posted by: Jonathan Dresner on 11.18.08 at 06:28 PM [permalink]I'm with Jonathan. Talk to the building management.
posted by: Dail on 11.18.08 at 10:17 PM [permalink]I finally nerved myself up (confrontation is so not my thing) and made a joke at one woman armed with a hammer and a four-inch nail. She swears they do the building's decorations every year and that they always nail stuff to the railings. She seemed to think it was okay because "it's on the outside, where no one can see it."
I had a moment of cognitive dissonance--what is it with the attitude that it's not damage unless you can see it? We live in such a disposable society....
posted by: Anne on 11.19.08 at 08:09 AM [permalink]