Now that the company I work for has consolidated its space from the whole 22nd floor to half of it, we have a new neighbor on the other side. Pay By Touch is the new company who inhabits our floor. They are a firm that deals in biometrics – cool stuff like where you pay for an item by having your fingerprint scanned. “Big Brother” concerns aside, it’s actually a neat concept but I don’t know if it will take off in the U.S. any time soon.
Anyway, it appears that any Pay By Touch employee doesn’t subscribe to the Flush By Touch theory of sanitation. While it’s possible that this could be a new employee(s) of our company, the sudden increase in “If it’s yellow, let it mellow” practice in our bathroom coincided with them moving to our floor. Perhaps they think the bathrooms are Pay By Flush? Not to mention there is now an unmentionable stink periodically emanating from their side of the entryway by the elevators.
An amusing side note is that while they’re on the cutting edge of technology, they still have to use the old fob entry system that the rest of the building uses. I’m sure this is for emergency reasons, as emergency personnel need to be able to access their office and wouldn’t have their fingerprint on file in order to gain entry. Of course, it’s probably a good thing that they don’t have fingerprint access, as you’d be forced to share finger germs with all the mouth-breathing non-flushers who are almost certain to be non-hand-washers too.