Thank you for proving my point!

Today, the company which manages our office building decided to up its green initiatives by implementing a recycling program and, as a result, issued each office two bins with which to recycle their kitchen and other waste. The bins are a fair size, but not unreasonable by any stretch of the imagination.

Naturally, the Boomer contingent of our office is already complaining - the bins have been here for a mere two hours at the time of my diatribe - about the size and inconvenient placing of the bins. Being made of plastic and cardboard, the bins are also not that heavy.

I suggested, in an effort to ensure that the bins get used for their intended purpose, that perhaps the bins could be placed outside my own office, there being a wall against which to put them which would not hinder traffic nor aesthetic sensibilities.

I was informed by a Boomer who shall remain nameless (for now LOL) that the bins were, in fact, too large for the area which I suggested and were for kitchen use only anyway. So, naturally, I can see this becoming an issue and the powers that be which decide such matters will probably end up returning the bins to the property manager, claiming as I stated above, size and inconvenience as their motivating factors.

As a last ditch effort, when asked by the Boomer if there was anyone 'green' in our office - thanks for failing to notice these last three years, by the way - I responded that aside from myself there might be at least one or two other such militants regarding the green cause. This seemed to surprise the Boomer (it's not that hard to surprise a Boomer, granted) and she relented somewhat, muttering something about "having to see" what could be done about the bins.

Once again, my own worst fears about the majority of Boomers was made resoundingly clear: lack of consideration for others, let alone the planet, and above all, LAZINESS.