…such as indoor plumbing in one’s workplace… Apparently, our building had a broken sewer line, and they had to find it before they could repair it. This meant two weeks of using porta-potties (ewwww) and/or walking over to the bathrooms in the neighboring building.
When you are trying to maintain a gallon and a half of water per day, this means more than a few trips next door.
It is good to have bathrooms again!
Yuck! We’re had water lines/sewer lines break a couple things at my office and we’re always told to go home. If we can’t have drinking water available and/or flushing toilets, we don’t have to work.
This was extremely nice when a water line broke in the womens bathroom and flooded my office - myself and half my coworkers were on paid leave for a week. Poor people with dry offices had to work though ;)
Nothing quite so bad as flooded offices for us. But they were jackhammering concrete and using a back-hoe most of last week. Now there is a gaping maw in a storage area of our building’s basement.
I would have been in favor of the paid leave option. It simultaneously could have been an interesting experiment to see if our university could function for two weeks without most of its IT department.
At least the bathrooms were only a five-minute walk away. (Much better to have them right around the corner, though.)