We have an intercom system in our building used for all of the important things our students need to know: announcing pizza deliveries, finding students who forgot to sign in, and letting everyone know there will be a male on the hall. I'm actually shocked I've never posted about the drama that comes with this intercom; a few years ago, there was a meeting about the intercom and how the staff could make it less annoying and excessive. Even I don't like the intercom all that much sometimes. I can't stand getting buzzed on the intercom right when I am in the middle of a nap or when someone needs something and I literally just took off my pants. Even worse is in the summer when we have camps in our building and the staff gets on the intercom every two seconds about pizza or something else camp related. It's one of the biggest love-hate things about my job, but I understand why we have it.
Among the aforementioned announcements is the dreaded laundry announcement: "If you have laundry in the washers on 1st West or 3rd West, you need to come get it. All of the washers are full, and people need to do laundry." My former co-worker Lisa used to call herself the Laundry Ghost and threaten to take the laundry and hide it if people didn't claim it in a reasonable amount of time.
Laundry announcements don't generally affect me because I do laundry at my boyfriend's house where the washer is large and the cost is...free. Today was one of the rare times I did laundry at work, however, and I was pleased to find this sign taped to a dryer after I couldn't find my own clothes in washer A:
The note at the bottom reads, "By the way, a button was loose in the washer. We left it above this sign on top. Have a lovely day/night/evening."
What a pleasant surprise! I am pretty excited about having my laundry paid for rather than being griped at over the intercom for leaving it in the laundry room too long. Sometimes, this isn't just like Mean Girls.
