Invisible Suite

At work, I sit up front in the reception area (because they ran out of room in the lab, and being the lowest rung employee, I’m the movable one, hehe). I still do lab work, just my desk is up front now. So I get to deal with what comes with that task.

One thing that has annoyed me, and keeps happening in the year and a half or so I’ve been sitting at this spot. We’re in suite 220. Straight across the hall is suite 200. You know, it’s in plain sight. On our floor, there’s just four suites in a little cluster there. Plain sight. Everyone has the same grey plaque outside the door saying the company name and the suite number.

Yet, somehow, nobody is ever able to find suite 200.

Every so often, some moron will come over to my door and look in at me and meekly ask “excuse me, can you tell me where suite 200 is?” And, biting my tongue, I calmly reply “behind you!”

This happens at least three or four times a month. I just don’t understand it. Sure, they are the only one of the four of us that doesn’t have their logo painted on their door. Their reception area is bare, even though they’ve been there since June 2006. But that doesn’t matter. When coming up the main steps (to the left leaving my door, to the right leaving theirs), visitor would be facing the grey plaque, which has their business name and suite number, even if from that view the reception area is bare and looks uninhabited. From the other side, where the other two suites are along with the long hallway where the bathrooms are on one end and the loading dock is on the other end. If coming from that direct, true, you don’t see the plaque, but you can see in through the glass doors that there is an obviously active lab in the back beyond the relatively empty reception area. So no matter which direction you’re coming from, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that might be the place you’re looking for.

Hell, these people even wander around a lot before they finally come ask me. They walk by suite 200 like five times and don’t bother to even look at the damn plaque or try to go in. I mean, their suite number isn’t any more hidden than the rest of ours. We all have the same grey plaque.

I don’t know. Maybe they’re in some parallel universe. Only I can see them there, as can everyone else who works in the building, but visitors don’t see it until I point it out to them. Who knows!

I sure as hell don’t get it!

One time I did tape a sign to our window saying “Suite 200 is behind you!” The owner of the company in suite 200 saw it and thought it was cool, and mentioned he should probably get a sign one of these days. My taped up sign was up for a couple days until it disappeared. One of my bosses probably took it down. He always takes down my signs!

Maybe tomorrow I’ll print out a SUITE 200 sign and go tape it to their door. What do you think? Overstepping my bounds? 😆