I am pretty happy to work in a place that tries to be energy efficient, conserves water, recycles, and discourages the use of cars by providing bikes one can use to get to meetings and such.
Except last week. You see, awhile back, all unnecessary light bulbs have been removed from light fixtures, leaving a single bulb per light switch. This provides plenty of light without making the room over-lit, and saves energy.
This is all good an great. Until the only light bulb left burns out.
In a bathroom that has NO windows.
In the only women's bathroom in my building.
And it takes over a week to install a new light bulb.
It is too bad redundancy is not energy efficient.
The perverse incentives of academia
6 years ago
7 comments:
Aww maan that is terrible. A week to install a new one? Aargh!
That's awful! (And hilarious as almost the same thing happened to me a few months ago. Luckily there's another woman's restroom in my building.) Maybe management could make an exception for windowless rooms with one light fixture?
Oh no!!! What did you do, bring a flashlight?!
Our building has motion-activated light sensors, and they recently shortened the delay before the lights go off. So if it's dark outside, or you're in an enclosed space like a bathroom, you sometimes find yourself having to wave your hands in the air to get the lights to come back on!
Heehee. I thought my university was inefficient. We have been reduced to lighing the cubicle (which has no windows) with the light of a mobile phone. Works well enough if one is desperate... :)
Bathroom with no light? Creepy...very, very creepy.
Why on earth does it take your unversity an entire week to change a light bulb?!
Rebecca and Bean-mom - a week did seem like much too long. Its a good thing issues related to my computer, etc. get resolved much faster!
Amanda - they went ahead and put in 2 lights! Yay! Hopefully there will be no restroomless times for awhile.
Cath - I thought about it, but these things are tough to remember while rushing out the door in the morning. My office has a motion-activated light, and it does notice when I am "thinking too hard" and not moving enough :) It would be much more interesting in a bathroom, especially if the door blocked the sensor ;)
Lab Pixie - that doesn't sound like fun. Are they planning to change that?
MadHatter - yep, a bit creepy. I actually managed to fully walk in and close the door before I realized the light was out. I am sure the look on my face was priceless as I walked right back out!
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