The Lights Will Come on, I Promise
At work, we’ve recently moved to a new building and it is quite nice. Not that the old building was NOT nice but the entire time we were there we knew it was temporary. So it didn’t feel like ‘ours’. Anyway, since we’ve been in the new building our lives have improved. We’ve got bigger monitor screens, more huddle/conference rooms, multiple kitchens, blah, blah, etc, etc. All this is well and fine… but there is one thing that is really starting to get on my nerves: the automatic lights. Yes, there are automatic lights in the restrooms. One would think that might be a nice thing to have, but not really when they don’t quite work right and you are not quite sure what it is that triggers the light. Is it my movement in the general area? Do I need to step into the stall for the stall light to come on? Is is the stall door that triggers the light?? And the thing is, the ’stalls’ are like mini rooms so you can’t go into one and shut the door without a light. It’s pitch black. I’m sorry, I do feel that I kinda need to see what’s going on in there. 
The other situation which this light issue has become just that - an issue, is that in some of the huddle rooms the light is automatic. So supposedly, when you walk into the room the light should come on. There are no light switches or anything, the light will eventually just come one. Again, these are rooms with no windows so it’s pitch black in there if you should go in and shut the door. So recently we have been doing some interviewing and let me tell you it is quite uncomfortable when I led a Hungarian, whom I’ve just met, into a tiny room, shut the door……… and we are standing there in the dark. These last two times my response was, “Sorry, it’s a new building. The lights will come on soon, I promise.”
