Always Be Aware of Mirrors

Yesterday, I shared my bad experiences at my first job.  Today, I want to relate a funny story that happened there.  The bathrooms were located down a little hall off the main sales floor.  The men’s room was first with the women’s room behind it, both off the left side of the hall.  Immediately upon walking into the men’s room, there were sinks and a very large mirror on the righthand side, so that when someone opened the door, anyone in the hall could see the people at the sinks.

One day, RF came to me and said that she’d gotten a very disturbing report from one of our female customers, and she wasn’t sure what to do about it.  I inquired what the customer had said, and RF told me that she’d just seen the private parts of one of our technicians.  Inquiring further on how this could have happened, RF related the story that the female customer was entering the hall for the bathrooms when one of the technicians crossed by in front of her and entered the men’s room.  He had flung the door open, so that the female customer had a clear view through the door and into the mirror over the sinks.  The technician had apparently already pulled out his private parts while still walking across the bathroom, and everything was visible in the reflection of the mirror.

My first reaction was to burst out laughing.  My second was to ask what the customer had thought about it.  RF took the bait, and responded that she hadn’t been very impressed actually.