Employees are overworked with no relief in sight, and not being paid for working overtime. Reporters often lack necessities to do their job[...] This climate of crisis is embodied by the soiling of the bathrooms. In the first incident, in the men’s bathroom, it took 24 hours for the feces to be removed from the floor. A reporter had to send out an electronic message warning employees about the situation. In the second incident, in the women’s bathroom, management quickly responded to have the feces removed and the area sanitized. Still, some employees believe the incidents were meant as a symbol of the mounting frustration they face on a daily basis.

Back in high school, at St. Joe’s Prep, we were briefly terrorized by someone we were calling The Phantom Shitter. I am still troubled and mystified by the brilliance of his crimes: Whereas many “institutional shitters” — this is the profiling term used by the FBI and the World Health Organization — befoul where they may on the floor, leaving their shocking fuselage to meet whosoever is the first to pass it by, The Phantom Shitter would go one step further. By relieving himself on a common lunch tray, he could then covertly, somehow, transport the tray to more visible areas, thereby affecting the aftermath of a “Dirty Bomb,” shocking and offending as many people as possible by leaving his tray in areas like the bathroom sinks, the cafeteria, and so on. To my knowledge, The Phantom Shitter was never caught, but demographic info regarding his education (the Jesuits have fostered many a writing career) and the high amount of students from southern New Jersey at this time suggests, well, I won’t suggest. My point, that I would direct to Courier-Post authorities, is this: If you find The Phantom Shitter of 1990, you just may find — or come to understand — The Phantom Shitter of Today.
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 11:28 am.