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John Kass doesn't want us to think about his "Mediterranean back hair," which pretty much guarentees that's ALL we're going to be able to think about for, oh, ever, but he's really writing about what's he's dubbed "Showergate": City Budget Director Bennett Johnson III has installed a shower in his City Hall office. It's at his own expense, and City Hall spokesfolk say he wants it because he bikes to work sometimes and wants to rub a dub dub when he gets to the office.
Johnson's will not be the first shower in City Hall. The chief of staff's office got one in the 1970s, and the mayor's office has had one "forever," Heard said. The office of the Streets and Sanitation commissioner, who sometimes works round the clock during snowstorms and other emergencies, also has a shower.
Other people are thinking about the Simpsons where Homer gets to use the executive washroom, right?
But that got us wondering....how common are at-work showers? Do any of you fine readers rinse off at work? Is an in-office shower a regular thing for fancypants execs? [Trib story, John Kass]
Showerhead via AMagill
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When I worked at the Merchandise Mart my company had a health club and a giant shower room. It was great.
Now that I work for myself I have, um, a sink.
Is Kass an extraordinary, poker-faced meta-journalist whose pointless "dog bites man" stories are actually intended to cast a harsh light on the state of American news reporting? Is quoting Manny Flores about anything intended to be satirical? I need a shower after reading that article. Unfortunately, all we have around here is an extra large accessible toilet.
At the futures brokerage I used to work at, our president had a shower, bedroom, and kitchen behind a secret panel in his office.
I now work for Northwestern University; my Chicago campus office is in a converted dorm, where most of its bathrooms in this building also have shower stalls.
We've got showers at the Field Museum, but they're for any employee not just the big-wigs. It really encourages bicycling and use of the onsite workout facility. In the summer the bike room is packed to the rafters.
I fail to see how this is that big a deal. If an executive want a shower in his/her office and is willing to pay for it, great! Seems like there are more pressing issues with idiot public officials in other areas of government (Stroger and Blogo, I'm looking at you).
The Second City ETC has one backstage for the actors.
But one time we had a had a huge pothead host who would come in time to time smelling like he was working in the ganja fields all day. We made him use it...
"Working in the ganja fields" is killing me.
I fail to see how this is that big a deal. If an executive want a shower in his/her office and is willing to pay for it, great!
Kass is implying that Johnson *isn't* paying for it, but "being forced to say he's paying for the shower" (emphasis mine).
As Kass goes on later in the column, "Personally, I think it's another Chicago fairy tale, like the time I gave the mayor's airport operations boss, Dave "Pool Boy" Ochal, his nickname... City Hall insisted that Ochal paid for it all himself, and would show me the canceled checks to prove it. The next day, they decided they didn't have to show me the checks. Last we checked, Pool Boy was still having pool parties."
It seems that some readers are not grasping the notion that this clown was NOT going to pay for the shower. It was only after the shower story "leaked" (pardon the word choice) that this political crony in question said he would pay for it.
That's not the point, however. The point is that no beaurocratic hack should be allowed to use OUR City Hall for his whimsical rehab projects. Even if he is going to pay a million dollars.
It's not your building, you hack. Hence, let Kass be the Shower Nazi, saying "No shower for you!"
Thanks for the clarification. It would frost my cookies if this was a taxpayer funded remodel. Why can't this guy just use the showers that are conveniently placed at the east end of Millennium Park?
Isn't manufatured rage John Kass' schtick? The guy doesn't have a sincere bone in his body. I've despised the smarmy Faux-yko since he arrived.
The Tribune story doesn't say that he was going to have it paid for at city expense (quite the contrary) and Kass doesn't give attribution to his bogus assertion. Kass is what is wrong with the Tribune: more snarky bullshit, less reporting. It's cheaper and if you get something wrong you can call it 'opinion'.
Of course i have a shower in my office. Look at my name, after all.
Two journalist in the city of Chicago have the heart to take on Daley John Kass and Ben Jorvasky -sp?. God or Godess bless em!
screw Sneed, well I would not touch her with your hands
But Kass isn't a journalist. His column is rarely reportage, it's opinion, which makes him just another pundit.
But did Stroger ever pay for his private elevator?