Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Gremlins in the workplace?

We have had several strange things that happen around our office on a near daily schedule. Things like being alone in your area and the keyboard is being tapped in the cubicle next to you. You get up to see if someone is there - and there isn't. You go back to your desk and the tapping of the keyboard starts again.

Or if you are in the restroom, in a stall, and no one is moving about - and the paper towel roll will buzz and scroll down. One guy even reported "someone" kept opening the door to his stall.... he would shut it, and he would see the knob moving and the door would open - and no one would be there.

I may have already shared how at the first of the year I came in to find tables pushed apart in the breakroom and a puzzle that was nearly 1/3 of the way done had been completely torn apart and spread all over the table. A salt shaker was spilled out on the floor.

I've seen pennies laying on a counter in the breakroom for months. Also a few pennies on a file cabinet in the hallway. They puzzled me.

But I have found out that we have gremlins here. Or rather, a little girl - and maybe two little girls. One has supposedly been seen, the other has not. However, the story goes that the pennies are for the little girl(s) to play with. People have said they have seen them moved around on the counter.

As for the puzzle, the explanation I received was the little girl got tired of seeing it and messed it up by pushing the table and pushing all the pieces apart. That was when I first heard of the little girl(s).

The story I have gotten is that in this hospital it was also an active morgue. Meaning, they kept dead people here. Not sure what floor that was on, but would assume the basement. We are on the 8th floor. I have found out that this floor was used as a skilled nursing facility back in its time. That's when hospitals had the skilled nursing facilities in-house. As for the little girl(s), no one knows if they were on the pediatrics floor and died here or what that story is. Supposedly the tapping of the keyboard is the little girl(s) playing.

And the story just continues. Yesterday I was looking out the window at an area across the street and some men were there digging. I have wondered for some time what that area was. It has a huge mound of dirt and a path around it. There is a fence around the blocked area. There is a parking area as one would have for a park. It's been confusing as to what it is.

A co-worker told me yesterday that it is an Indian burial ground and is protected. People will come periodically and do a little digging, but they have to have specific permits in order to dig so that the artifacts do not get destroyed, should they find any. I assume it belongs to the city. AND I found out that this hospital is also built on the Indian burial grounds. Guess that could also explain a little girl walking around?

All these stories do make this an interesting place to work, for sure. I've heard the keyboard tapping and no one there. I've heard rustling of papers and no one moving them when I go check. Very interesting for sure.

Blessings!

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